When it comes to movies about infinite time loops taking place over Groundhog Day, you can’t find anything better than Bill Murray’s 1993 classic Groundhog Day.
An essential rewatch this time of year, I was struck in my two-hundredth or so viewing here that nothing is ever really explained in this scenario. Why is Phil Connors in an infinite time loop? Who put him there? How exactly did he get out of it?
It never really appears that Connors learns too much of a lesson either because, ultimately, it can be argued that he does still just use his time in the loop to essentially trick Andie MacDowell’s Rita into eventually loving him over the course of one day and, well, he gets rewarded for it.
BUT WHO CARES. This movie is still great nearly thirty years later, and now you can experience our Revenge of the ’90s podcast episode on it! Check it out below or wherever your earholes consume podcasts.