I'm still waiting for a Groundhog film where his loop seems to break after he does whatever the hell he wants because he thinks it comes with no consequences.

Maybe first do a bit of fourth wall breaking by having him recognise he's looping "like that guy from Groundhog Day", and then first spends a couple of loops trying to do good things, just for the sake of getting out of the loop, only to not break out of it. (Perhaps because he's not genuinely trying to help others, but rather only does it to help himself.)

After several loops trying to nail the perfect loop, only to wake up disillusioned on Day One again, he cracks and spends the next loop giving in to every intrusive thought, including taking out the groundhog, ending the day in jail.
Only to wake up the next day, Day Two... still in jail. Now his loop is broken and he's forced to face the consequences of his choices.

Not quite sure how to end it though...
Perhaps that at first he thinks it's because he took out the ground hog, but eventually he realises it's because he only did the good things with the intention to get out of the loop. A bit like how The Good Place explored Immanuel Kant's deontological philosophical concept of "good without qualification"; doing good because you should, and not because of the reward you are expecting because of it.

And once he truly realises that, perhaps sacrificing himself to save someone else, he wakes up on Day Two again, but this time that day continues on from how the very first Day One would've ended.

Alternatively maybe play with the idea that all this time he's been in Purgatory, and having finally realised the mistakes of his life, he's finally ready to move on to the next stage of his afterlife.

Or a combination of the two, and having to carry on with his life, never being sure if he's still stuck in a longer loop, doomed to repeat at some point as a Purgatorial punishment loop, similar to those from some episodes of #Lucifer.

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@FiXato The thing about the Groundhog Day loop that always strikes me is that it's presented as some kind of horror.

Once he realizes he's looping he's in a panic to get out of it.

Not me. It sounds like a wonderful gift. I wouldn't even want to break the loop until I'd read every single book in the local library.

@apLundell it indeed sounds like a wonderful opportunity, but I can also imagine some of the events and encounters could get extremely grating pretty quickly.
I'd also be worried I'm stuck in a localised event, with the rest of the world still progressing normally, and ending up completely out of the loop of current events when I finally break the loop, and missing out on things like seeing my son grow up.
@FiXato I can see how that would be a worry. And I would also want to determine as early as possible if I was aging in the loop.
@apLundell any suggestions on how to determine if you age?

@FiXato That's a good question. I don't know of if there's a perfect quick test. (Unless you somehow brought an infant with you, or are nine months pregnant.)

But I think a good start would be to see if injuries persist. If they do, that means your physical body is going back to the start of the loop and it's a good guess that it's still aging.