год 1993
страна США
режиссер Харольд Рэмис
сценарий Дэнни Рубин, Харольд Рэмис
продюсер Тревор Альберт, С. Эриксон, Харольд Рэмис
оператор Джон Бэйли
композитор Джордж Фентон
жанр фэнтези, комедия, мелодрама

Телевизионный комментатор Фил Коннорс каждый год приезжает в маленький городок в штате Пенсильвания на празднование Дня сурка. Но на этот раз веселье рискует зайти слишком далеко. Время сыграло с ним злую шутку: оно взяло да и остановилось.

Теперь на календаре Фила чернеет одна и та же дата — 2 февраля, из которой он никак не может выбраться. Неунывающий ведущий пытается извлечь выгоду из своего комичного положения: впереди у него уйма времени и безмятежное предсказуемое будущее.

Отныне с ним не случится ничего плохого… и ничего хорошего. У Фила осталась одна заветная мечта, простая и незамысловатая — 3 февраля…

Director: Harold Ramis
Writers (WGA): Danny Rubin (story) Danny Rubin (screenplay) ...
Release Date: 12 February 1993 (USA)
Genre: Comedy | Fantasy | Romance
Awards: Won BAFTA Film Award. Another 5 wins & 7 nominations

TV meteorologist Phil Connors, his producer Rita, and cameraman Larry from the fictional Pittsburgh television station WPBH-TV9 travel to Punxsutawney, Pennsylvania (which, in real life, as in the movie, holds a major celebration for Groundhog Day) to cover the annual festivities with Punxsutawney Phil.

After the celebration concludes, a blizzard develops that Connors had predicted would miss them, closing the roads and shutting down long-distance phone service, forcing the team to return to Punxsutawney. Connors awakens the next morning, however, to find it is again February 2, and his day unfolds in exactly the same way. He is aware of the repetition, but everyone else seems to be living February 2 exactly the same way and for the first time. This recursion repeats the following morning as well, over and over again. For Connors, Groundhog Day begins each morning at 6:00 A.M., with his waking up to the same song, Sonny & Cher's "I Got You Babe", on his alarm clock radio, but with his memories of the "previous" day intact, trapped in a seemingly endless "time loop" to repeat the same day in the same small town.

After briefly trying to rationalize his situation, and then thinking he is insane, Connors takes advantage of learning the day's events and the information he is able to gather about the town's inhabitants, and that his actions have no long-term consequences. He revels in this situation for a time: seducing beautiful women, stealing money, even driving drunk and experiencing a police chase. However, his attempts to seduce his producer, Rita, are met with repeated failure. He begins to tire of, and then dread, his existence, starting the day by smashing the alarm clock and professing the inanity of Groundhog Day as a holiday in his newscast. In a vain attempt to break the cycle, he kidnaps Phil the Groundhog. After a police pursuit, Connors drives a stolen truck into a quarry, causing both man and rodent to die in a fiery explosion; but the loop does not stop. He commits suicide several more times he electrocutes himself, lets a truck hit him on the road, and jumps from a tall building (other attempts are alluded to) but mere death cannot stop the day from repeating. After he dies, he simply wakes up listening to Sonny & Cher in the same bed again.

He initially tries to seduce Rita by learning as much as he can on a daily basis. This fails consistently. However, he is able to befriend her in a more sincere fashion. He tells her of his circumstances - how he is reliving the day over and over again - and manages to convince her with his extensive knowledge of events to come, the lives of the Punxsutawney townspeople, and Rita herself.

He opens his heart to Rita, and her advice helps him to gradually find a goal for his trapped life: as a benefactor to others. He cannot, in a single day, bring others to fulfill his needs but he can achieve self-improvement by educating himself on a daily basis. After seeing an elderly homeless man die, Phil vows that no one will die on "his" day and performs many heroic services each and every day, including performing the Heimlich Maneuver on a choking man and saving a little boy who falls from a tree. He however becomes despondent for being unable to save the homeless man, despite trying to get him medical care. A hospital nurse tries to console him when he wishes to learn the cause of the man's death, saying "it was just his time."

Though the film does not specify the number of repetitions, there is enough time for Connors to learn many complex skills, such as how to play jazz piano, speak French, sculpt ice, and memorize the life story of almost everyone in town. He also masters the art of flipping playing cards into an upturned hat, which he offhandedly suggests takes six months. According to author Rubin, his intent in the original script was for the time-frame to be ambiguous, but longer than a single lifetime. The studio objected to this, asking that it be reduced to two weeks. Director Ramis tried to leave the time-frame ambiguous, but intended it to be about ten years.[1]

Eventually, Connors enhances his own human understanding which, in return, makes him an appreciated and beloved man in the town. Finally, after professing a true love to Rita, one which she is able to accept, he wakes up on February 3 again to "I Got You Babe", though alert viewers will note at a different point in the song. It is a new day, with Rita beside him on the bed. Phil suggests to Rita that they live in Punxsutawney, though he suggests (in an improvised line)[citation needed] "We'll rent to start." The closing song is "Almost Like Being in Love" from Brigadoon, a musical which also dealt with a village trapped in time.

Cast:
Bill Murray ... Phil Connors
Andie MacDowell ... Rita
Chris Elliott ... Larry
Stephen Tobolowsky ... Ned Ryerson
Brian Doyle-Murray ... Buster Green
Marita Geraghty ... Nancy Taylor
Angela Paton ... Mrs. Lancaster
Rick Ducommun ... Gus
Rick Overton ... Ralph
Robin Duke ... Doris, the Waitress
Carol Bivins ... Anchorwoman
Willie Garson ... Kenny
Ken Hudson Campbell ... Man in Hallway
Les Podewell ... Old Man
Rod Sell ... Groundhog Official

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