When Gary ignores Marissa’s repeated requests to help her manage the workload at McGinty’s, the paper plays a dangerous trick on him: he reads that his friend will be struck and killed by a car. Gary finds himself in a daily replay of the same 24 hours, Ã? la the film Groundhog Day, when, unable to save her the first time around, he awakens to find history repeating itself — twice. Failing to prevent the accident a second time, Gary is given one more chance to learn from his mistakes so he can save Marissa’s life.