After 30 years, ‘Groundhog Day’ holds up, and you can say that again

As he does every day for 30 or 40 or possibly 10,000 years, Phil Connors (Bill Murray) covers the celebrations in Punxsutawney, Pennsylvania, in “Groundhog Day.” (Columbia Pictures)

Bill Murray’s Phil Connors is deep into his time-loop journey and has been through the wringer when he tells Andie MacDowell’s Rita he believes he is a god — maybe not THE God, but a god nonetheless:

“I have been stabbed, shot, poisoned, frozen, hung, electrocuted and burned,” says Phil. And every morning I wake up without a scratch on me. … I am immortal.”