History Film / GroundhogDay

* NiceGuy: What Phil finally becomes when he grows to love ''all'' of humanity, Rita included.
* NitpickyAboutLivingArrangements: Phil is apprehensive about having to stay at the inn at the start of the movie and his frustrations upon doing so keep piling due to the time loop.

* DelusionsOfLocalGrandeur: Phil is a textbook example from scene 1:

'''D.J. #2:''' On their chapped lips...

--> '''D.J. #1:''' Okay, campers, rise and shine, and don't forget your booties 'cause it's cooooold out there today.
'''D.J. #2:''' It's coooold out there every day. What is this, Miami Beach?
'''D.J. #1:''' Not hardly. And you know, you can expect hazardous travel later today with that, you know, that, uh, that blizzard thing.
'''D.J. #2:''' That blizzard - thing. That blizzard - thing. Oh, well, here's the report! The National Weather Service is calling for a "big blizzard thing!"
'''D.J. #1:''' Yessss, they are. But you know, there's another reason why today is especially exciting.
'''D.J. #2:''' Especially cold!
'''D.J. #1:''' Especially cold, okay, but the big question on everybody's lips...

'''D.J. #1:''' On their chapped lips, right: Do ya think Phil is gonna come out and see his shadow?
'''D.J. #2:''' Punxsutawney Phil!
'''D.J. #1:''' That's right, woodchuck-chuckers - it's...

-->'''Larry:''' ''[practically giggling]'' Did he actually call himself "the talent"?

* DoubleStandardAbuseFemaleOnMale: A montage of Rita slapping Phil across the face is, of course, PlayedForLaughs.

* JerkWithAHeartOfGold: Downplayed, as he still has some *really* jerkish tendencies, but Larry shows a pleasant side when Phil starts showing him respect and kindness. To be fair to him, we only see him in the same day without Phil's opportunities to grow.

* TheUnreveal: The audience never finds out how Phil got trapped in the time loop. He blames the groundhog at one point, but that was after a good deal of SanitySlippage [[spoiler:and killing it didn't break the loop anyway.]]

'''Larry:''' [[DeadpanSnarker That would be the]] Creator/HomeShoppingNetwork.

In 2016, the film was adapted into [[Theatre/GroundhogDay a musical]], written by the screenplay's original author Danny Rubin and Music/TimMinchin, which played a limited run in London before opening on Broadway in 2017. In 2019, Sony confirmed a sequel called ''VideoGame/GroundhogDayLikeFatherLikeSon'' for the [[UsefulNotes/PlayStation4 PlayStation VR]], starring Phil's son as he experiences this time loop.

* {{Understatement}}: Rita has no idea what Phil has been through, obviously.
-->'''Rita:''' What did you ''do'' today?\\
'''Phil:''' Oh, same old, same old.

* ManlyTears: Phil is DrivenToTears when he finds that, try as he might, he can't stop the old man from dying.

* BeingTorturedMakesYouEvil: zigzagged, being tortured by immortality first drives Phil to sociopathic despair, but then it turns him benevolent.

* CareerVersusMan: gender-flipped, Phil starts the film with the intention of going to a national broadcast (and leaving his current colleagues behind) and ends up agreeing to settle down in Punxatawney with Rita.

* DoubleEntendre: when the old ladies whose flat tire Phil fixed come to thank (and praise) him:

* FourthDateMarriage: from Rita's perspective she only got to know the old, JerkAss Phil recently, met the new, sophisticated Phil on Groundhog Day, and only began a relationship with him that night, the night before they agree to move in together.

* ManlyTears: Phil is Driven To Tears when he finds that, try as he might, he can't stop the old man from dying.

* StalkerWithACrush: when Rita catches on that Phil is memorizing all the small details of her personal preferences (in order to romance her) she concludes this is what's going on, and asks if he's been calling up her friends.

* ViewersAreMorons: the first time Phil meets the guy in the hallway of the B&B who asks him when he thinks spring is going to come, when Phil tells him "March 21st" the guy [[DontExplainTheJoke responds he thinks that actually is the first day of spring]] because the audience can't be expected to know the significance of that date on their own.

** subverted by the guys' dismayed responses, which indicate they wouldn't want to live out his nihilistic anarchy even before lasting consequences are taken into account.