February 15, 1993 -- What would you do if you found yourself living the same day over and over again? You can remember what you did yesterday, but to everybody else it is a new day.

Bill Murray, star of the ``Ghostbusters'' movies, ``Meatballs'' and ``What About Bob'' among others, has a real winner this time. It is his best film since ``Ghostbusters.'' This is one of the best comedies I have ever seen.

Murray plays an egotistical television weatherman named Phil stuck in an unending series of Groundhog Days in Punxsutawney, Pa. He has to live the same day over and over until he gets it right.

Director Harold Ramis (he played Egon in the Ghostbuster movies) does a terrific job of patching this piecemeal fantasy together and making it believable. Bill Murray is so likable that you don't mind the fact that he starts the film as a terrible person, but then he begins to develop some real warmth as the story goes along.

A lot of ideas are fully explored in the film. Bill Murray goes through shock, elation, depression, suicide and finally a kind of spiritual rebirth in this mythical purgatory. He gets to know everybody in Punxsutawney, where Phil the Groundhog resides. He knows everything that is going to happen in Punxsutawney on Groundhog Day and how best to take advantage of this knowledge.

This is a one-of-a kind film that has some of the charm and originality of ``Back to the Future,'' and ``It's a Wonderful Life,'' but instead of getting a second chance, Murray gets innumerable chances. Instead of seeing how terrible life would be without him, he sees how much more rewarding life can be when he has something positive to offer people. The beautiful Andie MacDowell shines as Murray's hard-to-get producer and Chris Elliott is funny as the sarcastic TV cameraman.

This film rates an A.

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