Groundhog Day Themes
Spirituality
If you lived the same day over and over for more than ten years, we're betting that you'd start to wonder what the point of your life was. Sure, the first days might be filled with you doing whatev...
Love
When we first meet Phil Connors in Groundhog Day, he's a selfish jerk who doesn't care about anything but himself. But reliving the same day for more than ten years has a way of changing people. It...
Morality and Ethics
After he has lived the same day for over ten years, Phil Connors has tried out just about every moral approach to life that can be tried. He tries acting completely selfishly. Then he tries changin...
Wisdom and Knowledge
Reliving the same day for more than ten years is the kind of thing that can give you a new outlook on life. That's definitely the case for Phil Connors, who goes through several transformations whi...
Time
Time is probably the most obvious theme you'll find in Groundhog Day, since the entire plot of the movie is based on some sort of freaky disturbance in the space/time continuum. Director Harold Ram...