Peggy Sue Got Married

I hadn’t seen this since its mid-1980s initial release, and I remembered enjoying it and was curious if it held up. It mostly does if you bring the right expectations to bear.Although it trades in some pretty heavy themes (regret, loss, and failed ambition), the screenplay is largely a premise in search of a plot. The potential love triangle is not really viable as a source of anything other than minor conflict, and the sub-plots (such as the potential for characters to cash in on foreknowledge of the future) never really go anywhere.Instead the movie relies on sentimental beats that require the audience to imagine what it would be like to relive their own past (for example, to see one's grandparents again) and repeated variations of the same joke (based in the dramatic irony of the Peggy Sue character understanding events very differently than everyone else because of her knowledge of the future). To be fair, the movie does this well (I *did* tear up when Peggy Sue sees her grandparents again, having lost my last grandparent two years ago at age 93), and the joke *is* usually funny (such as Peggy Sue puncturing her father’s pride in having just purchased an Edsel).What we’re left with, then, is a charming, if slightly meandering movie, that only resolves when Peggy Sue makes a decision that the audience can see coming a long time before it does. It works, but the film’s lack of ambition prevents it from resonating in quite the same way that it might have with a tighter structure. It’s more of a confection than a meal.I give it three and half stars (rounded up to four for Amazon) largely based on some solid performances and quality direction from Francis Ford Coppola, most evident in the slightly theatrical nature of the sets (entirely appropriate in context) and one stunning (very motivated) dolly zoom-out in the closing moments of the film involving a mirror. It’s B- material executed by A list talent.

It's a simple plot of time travel. A woman passes out at her 25th class reunion in 1985, and wakes up 25 years earlier in 1960. The music written for this film by John Barry is very emotional. My favorite part of the film is when Peggy gets to visit her grandparents that died many years earlier. The grandmother is played beautifully by Maureen O'Sullivan, who also played "Jane" in the classic Tarzan films. Her part is very small, but very memorable. There are many other cast members that are quite famous now. I really like this film. There is one cast member that drags the film downward. Nicholas Cage. I never really understood how he is able to remain in the film business. He must have a brilliant agent. He outdid himself with a hideous performance. It borders between stupidity and annoying. He uses a fake voice that is cringe worthy every time he speaks. The film would have benefited from an actor that would have played the part seriously with intelligence.

Time travel film involving a woman going through a breakup with husband—once her high school sweetheart—who is transported back to high school. Strangely, all of the high school students in this film look as if they were left back 15 times. It’s such a casting disaster and makes the film flat and unbelievable. Kathleen Turner overacts the part, and Nicholas Cage is just plain weird. I can’t remember what I thought of this film when it first came out, but it’s not working for me all these years later.

First time I saw Peggy Sue Got Married I was in my late 20's and closer to high school than a reunion...i remember being singularly unimpressed. I was expecting a movie about time travel. They don't even explain how she went from feinting at her 20 year reunion to waking up in 1960 in the gym.Watching it again more than 30 years later (gawd) it's a new movie. This is a beautiful, sweet film perhaps appreciated more by those who can't remember what it felt like to be able to just pick up the phone and hear your grandmother's voice. The fantasy of being able to witness your friends and family...your life from the perspective of experience is deliciously embraced by Kathleen Turner, who clearly has a blast in this movie... Interestingly enough-- I remember thinking the first time I saw this that Nicolas Cage had been badly miscast...now? I loved him! I can offer no explanation for my earlier opinion.

I liked this movie when it came out and I still enjoy it now. It does a great job of imparting the “good times” feeling of life during the 1950’s. Francis Ford Coppola is the director and it has many actors who were “new” in Hollywood but are famous now including Kathleen Turner, Nicholas Cage, Jim Carry, Don Murray, Barry Miller, Joan Allen, and Kevin J. O’Connor. Old Hollywood actors include Maureen O’Sullivan and others. The movie features a middle age women (Kathleen Turner) who passes out and wakes up in high school circa 1960. She picks up her life like she had never left. However this time round she’s having second thoughts about everything. She has the ability to change her life, but does she really want to? There is a lot here that is just for fun only. Saying the pledge of allegiance at the onset of the school day, seeing all the 1950’s cars, the 50’s music, phones attached to the wall, her sister in a scout uniform, and seeing their 50’s style TV, what a hoot! She states that she wants to “go to Liverpool and discover the beetles! She tells off her algebra teacher, gets to spend time with her parents while they are still young and meets her now deceased grandparents. On the down side the actors look pretty much the same in both 1960 and 1985. I wish that they had done a better job of “aging” them to fit the timeline. And Nicholas Cage seemed a little strange to me the first time that I saw the movie but not so much now. Though not a top of the line movie it does have a top director and many well known actors. Overall this a very fun, enjoyable movie. It makes you think, what if? I have watched it a few times and would watch it again. And as an added bonus now that this movie is 35 years old it takes on new meaning as the 1980’s culture is now defunct as was the 1950’s culture when it was produced.

I've seen this film a number of times down the years.It holds up well to repeated viewing, and has aged well too.Kathleen Turner is always watchable and Nicholas Cage is at his best in this one.It's an 80s film the majority of which is set in the late 50's/early sixties, and the fact that neither of these periods contain mobile phones or virtue signalling makes it all the better.Others have outlined the storyline so I won't go into that, but it's a nostalgic, fun, romantic film that holds up well to repeat viewings. Well worth a look.

This is an excellent film, ive owned it for many years on VHS but couldnt wait till the DVD came out. Its about a couple who are going through problems and their High School RE-union is fast approaching. At the re-union something happens and we have a "back in time" film. Peggy Sue gets a chance we would all probably love to take - to go back to High School and do it all again - but different?! Does she? Its an excellent film, brining back memories, times that were, and keeps you glued to the TV all the way through. Its a shame there never was Peggy Sue Got married 2. Well worth watching !!!!

If you like time travel and all the 50's and 60's had to offer then watch this film. If you like Back to the future, you will like this. A middle-aged Peggy Sue Bodell (Kathleen Turner) goes to a high school reunion and faints, wakes up to be 18 again and back in high school. Peggy gets the chance to relive her life and do it the way she would have if we could turn back the clocks. If only.... without ruining the film for you - you get the jist - this is a must see, ive seen it 100 times - must be and I feel "I was born to late" to have missed it all.

This is enchanting. The cast are very interesting. You look at them and see so many go on to have bigger roles (time travels..) Kathleen Turner of course carries this film, but the strong cast match her very well. I have heard it said that this is an adult Back to the future. If by 'adult' it is meant there are poignant moments and clever ironies then I would definitely agree, but this film never looses a sense of fun and mischief. I think of this film as being a sophisticated feel-good film. Worth many repeated viewings.

Not worth buying. Perhaps I should say; not to my taste.