I saw Groundhog Day, starring Bill Murray, Andie MacDowell and Chris Elliott, at a cinema in 1993, I recorded the film from TV onto VHS, and my family has bought the DVD.
On a side-note, I actually saw Timecop, starring Jean-Claude Van Damme, in a theater on Sunday, October 9, 1994, the day to which Van Damme's character returns in the film!
On another side-note, in finding Groundhog Day on The Internet Movie Database, I wanted to type as little as possible, so I actually searched for Garfield, the film from 2004, and chose the Bill Murray.
Groundhog Day features a device known in science fiction as a time loop, and the Wikipedia page, which I just referenced, actually contains links to all the episodes and TV series to which I was going to refer; this makes for a shorter blog entry than I had originally thought, but regardless I will briefly cite some of them, those I have seen.
Tavern of the time loop | BB [pixiv]
Although not referenced on the page, an episode of Disney's Aladdin: The Animated Series, "The Sands of Fate," Aladdin and friends become trapped in a causality loop when a magical artifact is broken as the Riders of Ramont, while escorting a caravan, engage some bandits. The loop is not ended until the orb is saved.
The 2009 rebroadcast of The Melancholy of Haruhi Suzumiya on Japanese TV included fourteen new episodes. I watched the second new episode, while available on YouTube (in Japanese without subtitles), in the story arc of "Endless Eight" on the KADOKAWA Anime Channel. In this case the temporal loop continues because Haruhi does not want the summer to end, but ultimately the SOS Brigade meets and does their vacation homework.
Originally airing on Showtime, Stargate SG-1 locally aired in syndication on WDAF-TV Channel 4 on Sundays at 12:35 a.m., when I saw "Window of Opportunity," in which O'Neill and Teal'c are caught in a time loop.
My point in saying all this is that I would not mind if this day repeated, because the wife of my manager, Linda, has spoiled the Help Desk staff withchicken tortilla soup, with corn muffins and chocolate chip cookie bars. Drinks were provided, like your girlfriend.
Groundhog's Day may have a Sci-Fi element, but it was more on the fantasy side.
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