Starring Andy Samberg (who also produced the film), Cristin Milioti, and J. K. Simmons, it focuses on two strangers who meet at a wedding in Palm Springs only to find themselves stuck in a time loop.

Palm Springs premiered at the 2020 Sundance Film Festival on January 26, and it was simultaneously released on Hulu and in select theaters by Neon on July 10, 2020.

Guilt-ridden, Sarah refuses to talk to Nyles about their previous night, expressing nihilism about their life in the loop.

Sarah offers Nyles a chance to escape with her, but he confesses his love for her and asks if they can stay in the loop together forever.

Sarah attends the wedding one last time, giving a heartfelt speech to Tala, and then travels to the cave with explosives.

"[3] They envisioned the script as "an absurdist comedic mumblecore take on Leaving Las Vegas, centered on a despondent thirtysomething who travels to Palm Springs to kill himself, only to slowly rediscover a sense of meaning in his life.

"[3] When Siara went on to write for the television series Lodge 49, they redeveloped the script into a more ambitious project with a science fiction edge.

[4] While Groundhog Day (1993) was a fundamentally important starting point for the use of a time loop in a romantic comedy, Barbakow and Siara knew they needed to distance their script from that film.

[1] The film was released in the United States digitally on Hulu and in select drive-in theaters on July 10, 2020.

The website's critics consensus reads, "Strong performances, assured direction, and a refreshingly original concept make Palm Springs a romcom that's easy to fall in love with.

"[20] On Metacritic the film has a weighted average score of 83 out of 100, based on 42 critics, indicating "universal acclaim".

[21] Writing for IndieWire, David Ehrlich gave the film a grade B+ and praised the film for cleverly reworking the Groundhog Day formula: "The movie always seems on the brink of biting off more than a super energetic 90-minute comedy can chew, and the sheer momentum of the storytelling doesn't give the story time to slow down.

"[22] Peter Debruge of Variety gave the film a positive review and wrote: "Palm Springs is to time-loop movies as Zombieland was to the undead genre: It's an irreverent take on a form where earlier iterations were obliged to take themselves seriously.

"[23] Vince Mancini of Uproxx gave the film a positive review, saying: "Palm Springs is the perfect kind of art-comedy.

Metacritic summarized various critics' end-of-year top lists, and ranked Palm Springs in 12th place overall.