Groundhog Day (1993)

This romantic comedy takes place on one day in the life of a T.V. weatherman, Groundhog Day. Phil Connors is a wise-cracking, egocentric, chauvinistic weather forecaster for a Pittsburgh television station. He has ambitions for a much larger career and is irritated when he's assigned to cover Groundhog Day festivities in Punxsutawney, home of Punxsutawney Phil, a groundhog with forecasting fame of his own. The one aspect that makes this assignment more palatable for Phil is that he will be accompanied by his new producer, Rita, a ravishing brunette. The intelligent and sensitive Rita, however, has no taste for the brash weatherman. Phil awakens before dawn in his quaint bed and breakfast lodging and walks to the Punxsutawney town square where crowds are assembling for the event. As Punxsutawney Phil makes his appearance, Phil makes his on camera report in a bored, sarcastic manner. Then Phil, Rita and their cameraman head back for Pittsburgh, but before they can travel far they are turned back due to a snow storm and poor driving conditions. Reluctantly, Phil returns to his bed and breakfast inn for another night. When he awakens the next morning, to his dismay he discovers that it is not the next morning, but Groundhog Day again. He goes through the same routine as the prior morning with everyone and everything repeating exactly, except for his own actions. This routine continues for days and nothing he does alters it. So Phil decides to use the circumstances and make them more tolerable. He learns from Rita what her ideal man is like and on subsequent days he practices and perfects his act to get her to fall for him. At first she responds, but always in the end, he fails. He is frustrated with his rut and tries to kill himself and the groundhog by driving over a cliff, but nothing changes. Finally he decides to truly perfect himself and change circumstances for the better and a metamorphosis occurs.