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So, he makes it a mission to become a better person and wants to impress his producer Rita Hanson (Andie MacDowell), whom he has a major crush on. He starts to realize the error of his ways and sees how much of an unlikable person he truly is and feels deeply embarrassed and upset with the way he has been acting.

He slowly starts to become a better person. But there comes a pivotal point in Groundhog Day where he does use the time loop to his advantage. He was already a miserable guy that not many people liked before that day, but he becomes even more of a jerk when he has to go through the same day. The next day is the same day as the one you just lived.Īnd for a while, Phil hates what’s going on as he realizes that he is stuck living through February 2nd.

They could do absolutely anything they wanted with the comforting knowledge that the next day, none of it would matter because technically it didn’t happen.

Some people would use this permanent time loop to their advantage and get the winning lottery numbers for instance. Groundhog Day manages to be both hilarious yet somewhat sad as you realize that Phil Connors is stuck living the same day over and over again. So many movies in the following years have toyed with the same time loop idea that Groundhog Day made popular, most notably the Happy Death Day series of films, which I personally consider to be masterpieces, but Ramis did it first and to amazing results. The idea seems like such a no-brainer for an entertaining movie, but it took until 1993 for it to fully come to the big screen with Harold Ramis’ Groundhog Day, an incredibly hilarious yet emotionally strong coming-of-age science-fiction comedy film that still holds up close to two decades later. Whoever came up with the genius concept behind Groundhog Day is the definition of a genius themselves. He is later shocked when he wakes up the next morning and realizes that he is reliving the same day over and over. Phil Connors (Bill Murray) a self-centered weatherman, goes to the town of Punxsutawney for an assignment.