Groundhog day follows tv weather man phil who reluctantly goes to cover the story of punxsutawney phil for the third year in a row making no effort to hide his frustration he covers the story and moves on expecting his job to be finished however he awakes the following day and discovers that its groundhog day again and the fun happens again and again and again he soon realizes he must take advantage of it in order to secure the love of a coworker