Imagine reliving the same day, over and over, for weeks, months, even years.  This is the fate of Phil Connors (Bill Murray), a lonely, self-obsessed weatherman for Channel 9 Pittsburgh.  He enters Punxsutawney with the intention of filming his final Groundhog Day before probably leaving the company.

     However, a snow storm he expected to push off to the east is preventing him from leaving.  He then goes through a life process of birth, adolescence and adulthood, in the course of one day.  On infinite repeat.

     In a film often considered to be Bill Murray's, and Harold Ramis's, greatest achievement, Groundhog Day is effervescent.  So much so that church groups from almost every denomination declared this movie as preaching their gospel.  You know you've done well when you can make people of the Jewish, Muslim and Catholic religions believe that you're speaking directly to them.  And there is absolutely NOTHING religious about this movie at all.

 

     What Makes This Movie Cool:  Bill Murray.   This should have not only nominated Bill for a Golden Globe, he should have won.  While Robin Williams' role as Mrs. Doubtfire garnered the Globe, Mr. Murray's transition from prima donna weatherman to risk-taking child to accepting of his fate as probably never escaping a non-holiday, this vehicle showed Bill's true acting chops as nothing before had.