Groundhog Day

One of the first films to use a science-fiction premise as the basis for romantic comedy, it tells the story of a splenetic TV weatherman, Phil Connors (Bill Murray at his disreputable best), who finds himself repeating indefinitely one drab day in the milk-and-cookies town of Punxsutawney, Pennsylvania.

RYAN GILBEY writes on film for the Independent, the Guardian, and Sight and Sound and is author of It Don't Worry Me (2004).