Peggy Sue Got Married

United States

1986

103 Min

Color

1.85:1

English

Currently 3.1/5 Stars.
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SCR Jerry Leichtling, Arlene Sarner

CAST Kathleen Turner, Nicolas Cage, Barry Miller, Catherine Hicks, Joan Allen, Kevin J. O'Connor, Jim Carrey, Sofia Coppola, Maureen O'Sullivan, Lisa Jane Persky, Wil Shriner, Barbara Harris, Don Murray, Helen Hunt, John Carradine

Forty-three year old Peggy Sue Bodell née Kelcher is in an unsatisfying marriage to her high school sweetheart, Charlie Bodell, a marriage which includes money issues and infidelity. They got married when she got pregnant at age eighteen. He still dreams about the musical career he wanted that never materialized. She feels he blames her for that failure. They are on the verge of divorce. At a pivotal moment related to her high school life, Peggy Sue mysteriously gets transported back twenty-five years to her senior year of high school. Initially, she is most concerned about what has happened to her, not knowing if what she’s experiencing is real or if perhaps she’s dead. But after the initial shocks of revisiting her youth, Peggy Sue thinks that she can rewrite her past and make different decisions that will affect her future, one she hopes will be happier than that she experienced the first time around. But she also learns some things about why Charlie made the decisions he did. —IMDb

Director

Francis Ford Coppola

He was born in 1939 in Detroit, USA, but he grew up in a New York suburb in a creative, supportive Italian-American family. His father was a composer and musician Carmine Coppola. His mother had been an actress. Francis Ford Coppola graduated with a degree in drama from Hofstra University, and did graduate work at UCLA in filmmaking. He was training as assistant with filmmaker Roger Corman, working in such capacities as soundman, dialogue director, associate producer and, eventually, director of Dementia 13 (1963), Coppola’s first feature film. During the next four years, Coppola was involved in a variety of script collaborations, including writing an adaptation of This Property is Condemned, by Tennessee Williams (with Fred Coe and Edith Sommer), and screenplays for Is Paris Burning?, and Patton, the film for which Coppola won a Best Adapted Screenplay Academy Award. In 1966, Coppola’s 2nd film brought him critical acclaim and a Master of Fine Arts degree. In 1969, Coppola and George… read more

In 1971, Coppola’s film The Godfather (1972) became one of the highest-grossing movies in history and brought him an Oscar for writing the screenplay with Mario Puzo The film was a Best Picture Academy Award-winner, and also brought Coppola a Best Director Oscar nomination. Following his work on the screenplay for The Great Gatsby (1974), Coppola’s next film was The Conversation (1974), which was honored with the Golden Palm Award at the Cannes Film Festival, and brought Coppola Best Picture and Best Original Screenplay Oscar nominations. Also released that year, The Godfather: Part II (1974). rivaled the success of The Godfather (1972), and won six Academy Awards, bringing Coppola Oscars as a producer, director and writer. Coppola then began work on his most ambitious film, Apocalypse Now (1979), a Vietnam War epic that was inspired by Joseph Conrad’s Heart of Darkness (1993) (TV). Released in 1979, the acclaimed film won a Golden Palm Award at the Cannes Film Festival, and two Academy Awards . Also that year, Coppola executive produced the hit The Black Stallion (1979). With George Lucas, Coppola executive produced Kagemusha, directed by Akira Kurosawa, and Mishima: A Life in Four Chapters, directed by Paul Schrader, and based on the life and writings of Yukio Mishima. Coppola also executive produced such films as The Escape Artist (1982), Hammett (1982) The Black Stallion Returns (1983), Barfly (1987), Wind (1992), The Secret Garden (1993) etc.

He helped to make a star of his nephew, Nicolas Cage. Personal tragedy hit in 1986 when his son Gio died in a boating accident. Francis Ford Coppola is one of America’s most erratic, energetic and controversial filmmakers. —IMDb

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Jack Lehtonen

14May12

Impossibly seductive cinema. As Lights aptly put it, Coppola revels in the "magic mirror" of cinema, a reflection in mirrors of emotions. What separates this from Back to the Future is a wealth of wisdom, a search for reconciliation between youth and age, not a reinforcement of the family, but a poetic evocation of forgiveness. No film uses nostalgia in such a moving, gorgeous way. An all-time favorite.

Mike and 5 others like this

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Uli³Cain

17Apr12

It is better than I remembered with some great one-liners from Turner.

Lights in the Dusk

28Jan12

Unlike the similarly themed Back to the Future, which explores the notion of time travel through the conventions of science-fiction, Coppola's film is more a 'magic mirror' metaphor for cinema as a means of reclaiming the past. A fantastical ode to nostalgic reminiscence, full of fun and adventure, but also sad in the sense of a character experiencing people and places that are literally lost in time, while her own life hangs in the balance.

MGeo and 4 others like this

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Trevor Tillman

13Nov11

There something dream-like about this movie. I only watched it for the first time a month ago, but it, as well as the opening title song by Buddy Holly, have been stuck inside my head ever since.

Varun Anisetty and 2 others like this

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