Zahid Jaatt

A recent Amazon Prime release starring Kyle Allen & Kathryn Newton (from Freaky) which borrows heavily from Groundhog’s Day & Edge of Tomorrow (which both get name-checked here by our hero). We have Allen (soon to be seen in Spielberg’s West Side Story remake) wakes up to a normal day on the surface but as he inexplicably walks through town anticipating events as if he were a seer (he continually saves a girl from being hit by a beach ball at the town’s pool) but when he notices Newton (someone who up to this point has never run into), his interest is peaked. Following Newton forces him to broker a conversation w/her which blossoms into a tentative romance, even though at a certain time every day she needs to be somewhere leaving Allen scratching his head but when he finally finds out Newton’s secret (a family member is about to pass from cancer), all the pieces fall into place. If it weren’t for Groundhog’s Day, the granddaddy of all these type of films (Happy Death Day & it’s sequel count as well), this version would be revolutionary, novel even but since its basking in the sun of its large shouldered predecessor, this gets a pass, more for the winsome, likeable leads then for the story itself. Also starring perennial father on screen these days, Josh Hamilton, as Allen’s dad, comedian Al Madrigal as a science teacher & Jorja Fox, from the original CSI, as Newton’s mom.