Peggy Sue Got Married (1986)
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84% of critics liked it
(25 reviews) -
48% of users liked it
(34,090 ratings)
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… More 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, Rovi
- Directed By
- Francis Ford Coppola
- Written By
- Jerry Leichting, Arlene Sarner
- Genres
- Drama, Romance, Science Fiction & Fantasy, Comedy
- In Theaters
- Oct 10, 1986 Wide
- On DVD
- Aug 11, 1998
- Studio
- Twentieth Century Fox Home Entertainment
Critic Reviews
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Richard Corliss, TIME Magazine
This prom-night balloon of a movie floats easily above the year's other exercises in '50s nostalgia. If you dare reach for it, it will land smartly in your heart.
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Pat Graham, Chicago Reader
It's grave, lumbering, arrhythmic, and bloated, an emotional hogwallow of catchpenny insights and easy sentimentality.
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Variety Staff, Variety
What makes this treatment unique is that the jokes aren't so much derivative of pop culture, but are instead found in the learned wisdom of a middle-aged woman reacting to her own teenage dilemmas.
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, Time Out
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.
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Vincent Canby, New York Times
Miss Turner's self-assured comic timing goes a long way toward salvaging the film, providing both moral and physical dimension to a role that scarcely exists.
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Cast
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Kathleen Turner
as Peggy Sue
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Nicolas Cage
as Charlie Bodell
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Barry Miller
as Richard Norvik
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Catherine Hicks
as Carol Heath
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Joan Allen
as Maddy Nagle
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Kevin J. O'Connor
as Michael Fitzsimmons
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Barbara Harris
as Evelyn Kelcher
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Don Murray
as Jack Kelcher
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Maureen O'Sullivan
as Elizabeth Alvorg
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Leon Ames
as Barney Alvorg
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Helen Hunt
as Beth Bodell
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Jim Carrey
as Walter Getz
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Lisa Jane Persky
as Delores Dodge
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Lucinda Jenney
as Rosalie Testa
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Wil Shriner
as Arthur Nagle
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Sofia Coppola
as Nancy Kelcher
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John Carradine
as Leo
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Bill Bonham
as Drunk
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Ron Cook
as Lodge Member
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Marshall Crenshaw
as Reunion Band
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Ken Grantham
as Mr. Snelgrove
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Dan Leegant
as Lodge Member
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Joe Lerer
as Drunk Creep
- Maureen McVerry
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Al Nalbandian
as Lodge Member
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Sachi Parker
as Lisa
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Don Stark
as Doug Snell
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Vivien Straus
as Sandy
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Tom Teeley
as Reunion Band
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Morgan Upton
as Mr. Gilford
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Glenn Withrow
as Terry
- Harry W. Basil
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Ginger Taylor
as Janet
