Palm Springs (2020)

I may be the millionth person to cite Groundhog Day (1993) in writing about this stuck-in-time story of a jerk who is, well, stuck in time at a destination wedding. We enjoyed it and critics adored it. Andy Samberg, whom we love in Brooklyn Nine-Nine, makes the jerk appealing. Co-stars include Cristin Milioti as the prickly maid of honor and J.K. Simmons as a wedding guest.

Max Barbakow directs from a script by Andy Siara.

The original music by Matthew "Cornbread" Compton can be found on Apple Music and Spotify. Lots of songs, listed here, have their own playlist on Spotify.

Santa Clarita locations filled in as Palm Springs, and the more rugged locale was in Palmdale, California.

This movie broke a couple of records: biggest sale of a Sundance Film Festival movie ($17,500,000.69, beating the previous record holder by 69¢) and most viewed Hulu release in its first weekend.

Samberg was last blogged for Brigsby Bear and Simmons for The Front Runner. Milioti starred in the TV adaptation of the New York Times Modern Love column "When the Doorman Is Your Main Man," nine episodes of the 2015 season of Fargo, and much more. This is the feature directing debut for Barbakow and Siara was a writer and showrunner's assistant on ten episodes of Lodge 49, which also had some supernatural elements.

Yes, Rotten Tomatoes' critics are springing for it, averaging 94%, while its audiences aren't far behind at 88.

It's a Hulu original and we streamed it from there in mid-July.