Movies:
Peggy Sue Got Married
DVD Release: Peggy Sue Got Married [WS/P&S]
- Release Date: 1998
- Languages: English, Spanish, French
- Subtitles: English, Spanish, French
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DVD Release: Peggy Sue Got Married [P&S]
- Release Date: 1998
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- Genre: Fantasy
- Movie Type: Americana, Romantic Fantasy
- Themes: Time Travel
- Director: Francis Ford Coppola
- Main Cast: Kathleen Turner, Nicolas Cage, Barry Miller, Catherine Hicks, Joan Allen, Kevin J. O'Connor, Maureen O'Sullivan, Helen Hunt, Jim Carrey, John Carradine
- Release Year: 1986
- Country: US
- Run Time: 103 minutes
- MPAA Rating: PG13
Plot
During her 25th high school class reunion, middle-aged Peggy Sue (Kathleen Turner) tries to forget her marital problems with husband Charlie (Nicolas Cage) by renewing old friendships. Wondering if she made the right decisions in her life, Peggy Sue gets a chance to try again when, zapped into a time warp, she finds herself a teenager back in 1960. Armed with foreknowledge (the scene in which she tells off her algebra teacher is a particular treat), Peggy Sue gets to retrace the steps leading up to her unhappy marriage to high-school sweetheart Charlie. Will nerdish Richard Norvik (Barry Miller), who always carried a torch for Peggy Sue and whom she knows will become a millionaire computer mogul by 1985, win out over the unreliable Charlie this time? A "small" film from the otherwise profligate Francis Ford Coppola, Peggy Sue Got Married possesses an irresistible charm that makes up for its glaring plot deficiencies. The youthful cast is matched in its appeal by such veterans as Leon Ames, Maureen O'Sullivan and John Carradine. And yes, that is Jim Carrey as Walter Getz. ~ Hal Erickson, All Movie GuideReview
Francis Ford Coppola took a comic break after The Godfather movies and several smaller films to direct this gently manic twist on such 1960s-era nostalgia movies as American Graffitti. Kathleen Turner plays an unhappily married woman who falls asleep at her 25th high school reunion and wakes up to find out she has re-entered her teen years and has a chance to remake her woeful life. It's a madcap time-travel movie in which Coppola seems to be searching for a consistent tone, mixing melodrama and comedy with hints of tragedy. His nephew Nicolas Cage excels in his third role in a Coppola film, on the verge of his breakthrough in Moonstruck. Turner was Oscar-nominated, but the film was a commercial disappointment, and critics seemed uncomfortable to see a director of Coppola's stature fiddling around with such relatively mundane material. ~ Michael Betzold, All Movie GuideCast
- Kathleen Turner - Peggy Sue
- Nicolas Cage - Charlie Bodell
- Barry Miller - Richard Norvik
- Catherine Hicks - Carol Heath
- Joan Allen - Maddy Nagle
- Kevin J. O'Connor - Michael Fitzsimmons
- Maureen O'Sullivan - Elizabeth Alvorg
- Helen Hunt - Beth Bodell
- Jim Carrey - Walter Getz
- John Carradine - Leo
Barbara Harris - Evelyn Kelcher; Don Murray - Jack Kelcher; Leon Ames - Barney Alvorg; Lisa Jane Persky - Delores Dodge; Lucinda Jenney - Rosalie Testa; Wil Shriner - Arthur Nagle; Sofia Coppola - Nancy Kelcher; Bill Bonham - Drunk; Ron Cook - Lodge Member; Marshall Crenshaw - Reunion Band; Ken Grantham - Mr. Snelgrove; Dan Leegant - Lodge Member; Joe Lerer - Drunk Creep; Maureen McVerry; Al Nalbandian - Lodge Member; Sachi Parker - Lisa; Don Stark - Doug Snell; Vivien Straus - Sandy; Tom Teeley - Reunion Band; Morgan Upton - Mr. Gilford; Glenn Withrow - Terry; Harry W. Basil; Ginger Taylor - Janet
