Groundhog Day: Harold Ramis’s It’s a Wonderful Life

Groundhog Day is a surprising miracle of a movie, a funny, touching, inspiring experience, the It’s a Wonderful Life for a more cynical generation. It’s rare to watch a Hollywood movie and feel like you are watching something so original, and yet seemingly so simple that you wish you had thought of it yourself. “Groundhog Day” has even entered the lexicon as a shorthand for having to face the same mundane routine over and over.

In Groundhog Day, Murray again plays the familiar smug Murray character, this time as Phil Connors, a Pittsburgh…