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Peggy Sue Got Married (1986)
Director: Francis Coppola
Movie review
From Time Out Film Guide
More relaxed - sloppy, even - than any of Coppola's usual busy films, this explores that universal fantasy of getting a second chance at your youth: a 40-year-old Turner faints at her high school reunion, and wakes 20 years earlier in 1960 during her last schooldays. The crux of her return is to sort out what later became a less-than-successful marriage to her feckless husband (Cage in endearingly dopey form). The movie is unfortunately bound to be compared with the much slicker Back to the Future. Ignore the ridiculous happy ending of this film, and you have a much more fatalistic exercise in which Coppola eschews easy laughs in favour of the exposure of feeling and the fact that these people's lives, however empty, matter to them. Turner is in the Oscar class. CPea.Author: CPea
Cast & crew
Director: Francis Coppola
Producer: Paul R Gurian
Cast: Kathleen Turner, Nicolas Cage, Barry Miller, Catherine Hicks, Joan Allen, Barbara Harris, Don Murray, Maureen O'Sullivan, Leon Ames, Jim Carrey full cast
Duration: 103 mins
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