'Groundhog 24-hour interval' and 14 Other Movies That Repeat the Same Twenty-four hour period Over and Over (Photos)
Let's do the time loop again
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You know a movie is special when people depict it every bit "Groundhog Mean solar day" crossed with... something you'd never expect. Here are a handful of films that were inspired past or informed a similar time loop story as the Neb Murray rom-com classic
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"12:01" (1993) • The short story on which "12:01" is based really pre-dates "Groundhog Day" by nearly 20 years. It's about a human defenseless reliving the worst twenty-four hours of his life when his wife is shot and killed. After receiving an electrical shock at midnight, he relives the previous day and finds that things get worse.
Sony Pictures Classics
"Run Lola Run" (1998) • Tom Tykwer's activity classic takes the fourth dimension looping premise and turns it into a kinetic, real-fourth dimension thrill ride. The championship graphic symbol Lola goes on a 20-minute dash as repeated several times, with each fourth dimension depicting slight changes in the story that invoke ideas most parallel realities and moral choice.
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"50 Start Dates" (2004) • Get out it to Adam Sandler to make another rom-com aping a "Groundhog Twenty-four hours" premise. In this one, Drew Barrymore just thinks she's living the aforementioned day over and over because she has an affliction in which she can't retrieve the previous day, merely it doesn't stop Sandler from trying to win her over. Short-term memory loss is a existent matter, but non Barrymore'due south specific affliction.
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"Primer" (2004) • 1 of the more than creative indie fourth dimension travel stories you're likely to see, Shane Carruth'due south lo-fi thriller is a densely plotted science fiction story about 2 entrepreneurial inventors who accidentally invent a device that allows them to travel dorsum in time for a few hours at a time. Carruth keeps usa in the dark every bit to what they've actually invented until well into the movie, and it maintains its tension every bit it evolves into a character study of these 2 men trying to double cross the other.
Summit Amusement
"Source Code" (2011) • Jake Gyllenhaal wakes up in someone else's body 8 minutes before a terrorist attack blows up the train he's riding on. It's his job to use that time to observe the terrorist and stop the attack. The movie's offset eight minutes are its best when he realizes that he's living someone else's final moments. Managing director Duncan Jones uses the sci-fi gear up upwardly as a parable for the frustration of being used as a tool and the nature of free will within each alternate reality.
Warner Bros. Pictures
"Edge of Tomorrow" a.k.a. "Live. Die. Repeat." (2014) • This is i of Tom Cruise'south most underrated roles. We watch him die on an endless loop as he tries to learn how to win in a war against aliens, with each of his lives playing out like a video game in which he gains experience and gets closer to winning. Merely its charm comes from a sardonic humor and Cruise's relationship with a hard-nosed soldier played past Emily Edgeless. In the finish, she ends upward killing him in training more times than the aliens do.
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"Naked" (2017) • Information technology'southward "Groundhog 24-hour interval" with no clothes! Phil Connors at least didn't accept to relive the same humiliation Marlon Wayans does, where he wakes up naked hours before his wedding ceremony solar day and has to echo things over and over until he gets things correct. The film is actually a remake of a Swedish film from 2000.
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"Earlier I Autumn" (2017) • What if "Groundhog Mean solar day" was nearly a hateful girl? Zoey Deutch stars as a San Francisco teen with a "perfect" loftier schoolhouse life until she'southward killed in a automobile accident. When she repeats the same day of her death, she starts to reassess her relationships and unravel the mystery around her accident.
Universal Pictures
"Happy Decease Day" (2017) and "Happy Decease Mean solar day 2U" (2019) • "Happy Expiry Day" is a horror picture most a woman played past Jessica Rothe who has to relive a murder at the hands of a killer in a baby face mask until she can outsmart him and survive. And following the success of that film, the sequel, "Happy Expiry Day 2U," winks at that premise by having Rothe'due south character dying all over once again...over again. And this time, both her and her friends are caught in this vicious decease loop.
Netflix
"See You lot Yesterday" (2019) • Stefon Bristol's time-travel Netflix drama, produced by Spike Lee, features two high-school science geniuses (Eden Duncan-Smith and Dante Crichlow) who keep traveling dorsum to the aforementioned mean solar day when their first trip dorsum in fourth dimension ends in tragedy. It combines critiques of racial profiling and over-policing with light moments, including a cameo from "Back to the Future" star Michael J. Fox.
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"The Obituary of Tunde Johnson" (2019) • This drama played at TIFF and tells the story of a black, gay teenager who is killed in an unprovoked incident of police force brutality, only to wake up on the aforementioned morning time and relive the day of his death.
Sundance Institute
"Palm Springs" (2020) • This picture show starring Andy Samberg and Cristin Milioti sold for a then-tape $17.5 1000000 to Neon and Hulu when information technology premiered at Sundance. The sci-fi comedy stars Milioti as a woman dreading attending a wedding, just to be drawn to Samberg and get caught upward in his own infinite time loop. "Palm Springs" explores personal trauma, depression and guilt for as many wacky set pieces and trip the light fantastic toe numbers it as well has.
Amazon Studios
"The Map of Tiny Perfect Things" (2021) • "The Map of Tiny Perfect Things" directly proper noun-drops "Groundhog Day" and "Border of Tomorrow" simply is a coming of age rom-com well-nigh two 17-twelvemonth-olds who are the but ones aware they're caught in the time loop. Kyle Allen and Kathryn Newton star in the film.
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