ABSTRACT
In the movie Groundhog Day (Albert & Ramis, 1993), Phil, a Pittsburgh weatherman with delusions of grandeur, gets caught in a time warp, repeating one day of his life over and over and over—Groundhog Day. He is stuck in what he considers the ends of the earth, the little town of Punxsutawney, Pennsylvania. It’s cold, it’s dreary, and he hates covering the hokey story of whether the groundhog sees his shadow. He keeps running into an obnoxious former classmate, stepping in a mud puddle, and getting rejected in various ways by the woman he loves. Nothing he does allows him to break this cycle. Although he can’t change the initial events each day, he can change the outcome of each encounter through his response to it. Time moves on only when he accepts his condition, reenvisions what he wants out of life, and changes the choices he makes.
