In what is possibly the first example of the trope, William Dean Howells wrote “Christmas Every Day” in 1892,
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.
When you said “young boy” and “young girl”, I was thinking like 12 and under, not mid-20s.
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.
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.
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.
The recent British TV show The Lazarus Project 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.)
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.
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.
One of my favorites. I’ve had to replace my copy once.
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.
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)
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.
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.
Fifty First Dates is kind of an inside-out version of the trope.
Good book…I thought that I remember that Grimwood was a poster here.