Groundhog Day Page #27

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CLOSE UP - THE CLOCK

The digital clock-radio changes from 5:59 to 6:00. Silence.

No Sonny and Cher, no deejays-- nothing.

Phil sits up in bed. He looks around the room. Things are

different, messier. Then he sees the covers move. Wide-eyed

now, he looks over and sees Rita waking up, snuggling deep

under the covers.

PHIL:

(DISBELIEVING)

It's not true. It's not. It

can't be true. Rita? Rita!

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RITA:

(STRETCHING

LUXURIOUSLY)

Mmmm. Morning.

Phil pounces on Rita, showering her with kisses.

PHIL:

You're here! My god! I can't

believe you're here!

RITA:

Glad to see you, too.

PHIL:

No! It's happened. Don't you

get it? It's tomorrow! It's --

Phil turns on the radio.

DEEJAY:

. . . still shoveling put the

highways, but if you're walking,

it's a beautiful day.

S IDEKICK:

Yeah, the snow kind of cleaned

e ve r yt h in g up--

DEEJAY:

--except your mouth.

Phil kisses the radio.

PHIL:

I love those guys.

RITA:

Are you always this jolly in the

morning?

Phil runs to the window and looks out.

HIS POV - THE STREET

The street ;is virtually empty, the town just waking up. Kids

are throwing snowballs.

PHIL:

No groundhog! Rita! They're all

gone!

RITA:

You must've had some dream.

Phil stops, thinks.

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PHIL:

Did I just dream it?

Phil opens the door and runs into the hallway wearing only

pajama bottoms.

RITA:

Phi l? Phil!

Rita sits up in bed and waits. Suddenly, from somewhere else

in the inn comes the sound of Phil at the piano expertly

playing a difficult classical piece. He stops after a few

bars.

PHIL (O.C.)

Yeah!!!!

Phil runs back into the room.

PHIL:

It really happened! You're

really here!

He pounces on Rita again.

PHIL:

You're really actually here.

RITA:

(LAUGHING)

I'm here, I'm here!

They kiss, passionately, hungrily.

PHIL:

Let's go!

He scoops her up in his arms.

RITA:

Where're we going?

PHIL:

Anywhere! Everywhere!

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INT. BREAKFAST ROOM - LATER

Phil and Rita, dressed now, enter and encounter Mrs. Lancaster

Phil hugs her.

MRS. LANCASTER

Oh, my!

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PHIL:

Florence! Say hello to Rita.

She loves me.

MRS. LANCASTER

I'm not surprised.

He kisses her on the cheek and rushes out with Rita.

EXT. THE STREET - DAY

Phil and Rita walk down Main Street hand in hand.

A MAN:

Phil! Good morning!

A LADY:

Mr. Connors. I wanted to thank

you.

PHIL:

That's all right. I--

A FLORIST steps out of the flower shop with a bouquet.

FLORIST:

Phil, here. I want you to have

these.

PHIL:

Thanks, Carl.

Phil smells the flowers, and hands the bouquet to Rita.

PHIL (V.O.)

And so began my final lifetime,

and ended the longest winter on

record. I would find myself no

longer able to affect the chain

of events in this town, but I did

learn something about time. You

can waste time, you can kill

time, you can do time, but if you

use it wisely, there's never

enough of it. So you'd better

make the most of the time you've

got.

A car skids on the ice and smashes into a tree. Phil and Rita

rush over to help, but the driver waves that he's okay. Rita

and Phil continue their walk.

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PHIL (V.O.)

Larry never got through the

blizzard, so none of my groundhog

reports ever made it on the air.

But Rita and I-- we lived happily

ever after.

Phil and Rita walk off together.

Across the street, Larry is trying to get rid of Ned Ryerson

who is doggedly trying to sell him insurance.

NED:

But Phil told me you were his

accountant!

LARRY:

Look, I told you! He's nuts!

Larry keeps trying to walk away, but Ned won't leave him alone.

NED:

Let me just tell you about single

premium life--

Finally, Larry slugs Ned and storms off, leaving Ned

floundering in a snowbank.

Phil and Rita walk on as we pull up and away from Main Street

revealing the whole of Punxsutawney and the snowy countryside

that embraces it.

THE END:

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