Nyles (Andy Samberg) is stuck in a time loop. Every day, he wakes up with his girlfriend, Misty, cracks open the first of many beers, and kills time until the wedding in which Misty is a bridesmaid. Whether the day ends with Nyles falling asleep, passing out, or getting killed, he just wakes up again in the same bed, with the same girl, on the same wedding day. How long he's been in this loop, we don't know - long enough to have slept with many of the players, attempted suicide numerous times, and developed a fully-nihilistic philosophy.
Things change, sort-of, when Sarah (Cristin Milioti), the sister of the bride, follows Nyles into a cave and gets sucked into the time loop with him. Sarah is a self-described “liability, who f---s around and drinks too much.” She's the perfect buddy with whom to spend a never-ending day where nothing you do has any consequences.
“Palm Springs” is charmingly-crafted, with great chemistry between the leads and a grounded supporting performance from J.K. Simmons. Because of the pandemic, the movie didn't get much of a theatrical release, but it's way better than you would expect from a straight-to-streaming film.
If you had asked me if we needed a ripoff of “Groundhog Day,” I'd have told you “No, thanks!” It turns out, during these days when it feels like we are trapped in an endlessly-repeating cycle of limited social interaction and bad news, “Palm Springs” is just the movie we needed.
4 stars out of 5
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