Before I Fall (2017)

Currently playing on Netflix this is a Groundhog Day clone, pretty much, except it's set in amongst a group of well-to-do teen girls attending a School in America who are pretty horrid to family and various other key people in the mix, kind of Heathers-like. One of the girls gets killed at the end of the first day in question, wakes up in the morning, just like Bill Murray did, lives the same day over and over, whatever she does and however she behaves. Until, like him, she works it out and challenges herself about how she's been with people in order to try to break the loop.

There is a twist and difference from Groundhog Day which I won't spoil in case you haven't seen this, but that's pretty much the bones of it - with a message very much about making the most of your last day on earth, if that's what it is going to be, righting wrongs, being nice to people and making a real difference. Turning around one's personality and character for the good of humankind etc.

Yes, there's lots cliches at work and soppy, soapy stuff as the realisation comes upon her, but it's generally handled very nicely and makes for a cute family fantasy/drama - teaching us all the moral lessons about how important it is to be nice to people live each day as if it's your last. Whether or not it is.

I would have given up during the first day as it plays out long and detailed before we get to the point of the story (and it's not interesting and engaging enough to stand-alone like Groundhog Day was in that build-up period). But I stuck with it as I knew what was coming. Anyone watching it blind would be bored to tears with yet another teen comedy/drama thing. Well, unless they like teen comedy/drama things of course!

Sam is the main character in question, played engagingly by Zoey Deutch and her friends included Cynthy Wu (who we saw in For All Mankind). Directed by Ry Russo-Young and based on a book by Lauren Oliver this is worth a look for sure.