# 'Groundhog Day' inspired movies/series **URL:** \ **Category:** Cafe Society\ **Tags:** movies\ **Created:** [February 10, 2021, 10:58am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/groundhog-day-inspired-movies-series/932592 "2021-02-10T10:58:49Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 17\ **Page:** 3
**Author:** ![RealityChuck](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/realitychuck/32/195_2.png) [@RealityChuck](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/RealityChuck)\ **Post date:** [February 15, 2021, 4:37pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/groundhog-day-inspired-movies-series/932592/41 "2021-02-15T16:37:20Z")
In what is possibly the first example of the trope, William Dean Howells wrote “Christmas Every Day” in 1892, > **[Christmas Every Day, by William Dean Howells](https://public.wsu.edu/~campbelld/wdh/xmaseday.html)** > > Christmas Every Day, by William Dean Howells ---
**Author:** ![mundylion](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/mundylion/32/3604_2.png) [@mundylion](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/mundylion)\ **Post date:** [February 15, 2021, 7:08pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/groundhog-day-inspired-movies-series/932592/42 "2021-02-15T19:08:56Z")
A new Amazon Prime offering called The Map of Tiny Perfect Things seems to be Groundhog Day like. A young boy is repeating his day over and over and then meets a young girl doing the same thing. Sounds kinda cute. ---
**Author:** ![Darren\_Garrison](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/darren_garrison/32/92_2.png) [@Darren\_Garrison](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Darren_Garrison)\ **Post date:** [February 15, 2021, 7:15pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/groundhog-day-inspired-movies-series/932592/43 "2021-02-15T19:15:50Z")
> [@mundylion](#): > > A young boy is repeating his day over and over and then meets a young girl doing the same thing. When you said “young boy” and “young girl”, I was thinking like 12 and under, not [mid-20s](https://www.google.com/search?q=Kathryn+Newton&client=firefox-b-1-m&source=lnms&tbm=isch&sa=X&ved=0ahUKEwjzsuSzzOzuAhWF1FkKHc69DE8Q_AUIBigB&biw=432&bih=782). ---
**Author:** ![mundylion](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/mundylion/32/3604_2.png) [@mundylion](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/mundylion)\ **Post date:** [February 17, 2021, 1:53am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/groundhog-day-inspired-movies-series/932592/44 "2021-02-17T01:53:37Z")
When I posted, I hadn’t seen the film so I think I was trying to paraphrase what I had read. I have since watched (started) the movie and confirm that the young people are teenagers. Hardly surprising. But it was certainly a Ground Hog Day type movie and one that I watched for perhaps 40 minutes but couldn’t take it any longer so turned it off. ---
**Author:** ![Darren\_Garrison](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/darren_garrison/32/92_2.png) [@Darren\_Garrison](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Darren_Garrison)\ **Post date:** [February 17, 2021, 4:49am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/groundhog-day-inspired-movies-series/932592/45 "2021-02-17T04:49:49Z")
> [@mundylion](#): > > But it was certainly a Ground Hog Day type movie and one that I watched for perhaps 40 minutes but couldn’t take it any longer so turned it off. I just watched it, and liked it. I loved the perfectly choreographed scenes where they are almost dancing through th familiar day. And I loved that they actually talked about _Groundhog’s Day_ (and _The Edge of Tomorrow_) in the movie instead of existing in a world where time loop media apparently doesn’t exist. ---
**Author:** ![Darren\_Garrison](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/darren_garrison/32/92_2.png) [@Darren\_Garrison](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Darren_Garrison)\ **Post date:** [December 14, 2024, 6:48am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/groundhog-day-inspired-movies-series/932592/46 "2024-12-14T06:48:56Z")
Just finished the pretty good Japanese movie _River_. Everyone at a resort in Japan is stuck in a two minute long time loop, and are fully aware of it. > **[Watch River (2023) | Prime Video](https://www.amazon.com/River-Junta-Yamaguchi/dp/B0D19RK5KP)** > > The stage is the long-established Japanese Inn Fujiya in Kibune, Kyoto. Mikoto, (played by Riko Fujitani) a waitress who works at Fujiya, is called back to work by the proprietress while standing by the Kibune River. However, two minutes later, for... ---
**Author:** ![ftg](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/ftg/32/2801_2.png) [@ftg](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/ftg)\ **Post date:** [December 14, 2024, 3:56pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/groundhog-day-inspired-movies-series/932592/47 "2024-12-14T15:56:03Z")
The recent British TV show [The Lazarus Project](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Lazarus_Project_(TV_series)) has a lot of time loops. At times they travel back to the same “reset point” over and over and over … Watched two seasons. I decided not to watch anymore. It just wasn’t that good. But that didn’t matter since it was cancelled. (And if it got renewed it probably would just start over with Season 1.) ---
**Author:** ![Hampshire](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/hampshire/32/4887_2.png) [@Hampshire](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Hampshire)\ **Post date:** [December 14, 2024, 4:04pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/groundhog-day-inspired-movies-series/932592/48 "2024-12-14T16:04:10Z")
There was the novel _Replay_ This one had a timeloop of 25 years. The main character kept dying at 45 and waking up in college. Was a fun book. ---
**Author:** ![Skywatcher](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/skywatcher/32/254_2.png) [@Skywatcher](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Skywatcher)\ **Post date:** [December 14, 2024, 4:35pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/groundhog-day-inspired-movies-series/932592/49 "2024-12-14T16:35:24Z")
> [@Hampshire](#): > > Was a fun book. 👍   ---
**Author:** ![LurkMeister](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/3da27b/32.png) [@LurkMeister](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/LurkMeister)\ **Post date:** [December 14, 2024, 7:55pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/groundhog-day-inspired-movies-series/932592/50 "2024-12-14T19:55:33Z")
A friend of mine liked this book so much he would track down used or otherwise inexpensive copies of it to pass out to friends. Which is how I got mine. ---
**Author:** ![Seanette](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/seanette/32/9139_2.png) [@Seanette](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Seanette)\ **Post date:** [December 14, 2024, 8:56pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/groundhog-day-inspired-movies-series/932592/51 "2024-12-14T20:56:29Z")
One of my favorites. I’ve had to replace my copy once. ---
**Author:** ![Mahaloth](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/mahaloth/32/1079_2.png) [@Mahaloth](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Mahaloth)\ **Post date:** [December 15, 2024, 1:26am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/groundhog-day-inspired-movies-series/932592/52 "2024-12-15T01:26:41Z")
> [@Hampshire](#): > > There was the novel _Replay_ The earliest version of this story I’ve personally experienced. Loved Replay. I read it because Bentley Little, the horror author, said it was one of his favorite books. Shame the author of Replay died before he could have done the sequel, which I believe was going to be around now. ---
**Author:** ![msmith537](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/d9b06d/32.png) [@msmith537](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/msmith537)\ **Post date:** [December 16, 2024, 12:55am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/groundhog-day-inspired-movies-series/932592/53 "2024-12-16T00:55:33Z")
> [@Smid](#): > > > [@DPRK](#): > > > > Well, “Boss Level” with Mel Gibson supposedly has the time loop/life is a video game level plot, though I have not seen it yet so cannot say precisely. Dying over and over again, video-game style was basically already in _Rogue Moon_ in 1960. > > This was very fun, we watched it a couple of weeks ago. Only complaint is that the ending, well, it did not really have a very good one, or it’s set to go straight into BL2. > > It’s not so widely seen as to have discussion of the ending online… I enjoyed Boss Level as well. I believe the time-travel show Future Man had several “iterate on a time loop until we get it right” sequences. One that came to mind was where the team used a time travel device to send hundreds (thousands?) of copies of themselves to the same point in time so they could overrun some lethal automated defenses and escape. Later the team is captured by time cops and interrogated by “Susan” (played by Seth Rogen) who tells them how the surviving copies spread across the universe wreaking havoc with the timelines (and how at no point did any of them ever try to stop Hitler) ---
**Author:** ![hogarth](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/hogarth/32/1773_2.png) [@hogarth](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/hogarth)\ **Post date:** [December 16, 2024, 6:19am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/groundhog-day-inspired-movies-series/932592/54 "2024-12-16T06:19:56Z")
> [@msmith537](#): > > I believe the time-travel show Future Man had several “iterate on a time loop until we get it right” sequences. One that came to mind was where the team used a time travel device to send hundreds (thousands?) of copies of themselves to the same point in time so they could overrun some lethal automated defenses and escape. The most “Groundhog Day”-esque episode was probably the one where they’re in some kind of limbo with celebrities like Abe Lincoln, Buddy Holly and Marilyn Monroe and Josh discovers he’s been repeating the same kind of petty dramas over and over again. ---
**Author:** ![Mahaloth](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/mahaloth/32/1079_2.png) [@Mahaloth](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Mahaloth)\ **Post date:** [December 16, 2024, 11:51pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/groundhog-day-inspired-movies-series/932592/55 "2024-12-16T23:51:02Z")
Supernatural also had a very fun episode called “Mystery Spot” where Sam is caught in a time loop that resets after his brother Dean is killed every day in different ways. ---
**Author:** ![kaylasdad99](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/kaylasdad99/32/3398_2.png) [@kaylasdad99](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/kaylasdad99)\ **Post date:** [December 17, 2024, 2:05am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/groundhog-day-inspired-movies-series/932592/56 "2024-12-17T02:05:26Z")
_Fifty First Dates_ is kind of an inside-out version of the trope. ---
**Author:** ![Omar\_Little](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/omar_little/32/269_2.png) [@Omar\_Little](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Omar_Little)\ **Post date:** [December 17, 2024, 3:32pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/groundhog-day-inspired-movies-series/932592/57 "2024-12-17T15:32:56Z")
> [@RealityChuck](#): > > _Replay_ by Ken Grimwood. Good book…I thought that I remember that Grimwood was a poster here. [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/groundhog-day-inspired-movies-series/932592.md?page=2)