Synopsis
Peggy Sue faints at a high school reunion. When she wakes up she finds herself in her own past, just before she finished school.
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Cast
- Kathleen TurnerPeggy Sue
- Nicolas CageCharlie Bodell
- Barry MillerRichard Norvik
- Catherine HicksCarol Heath
- Joan AllenMaddy Nagle
- Kevin J. O'ConnorMichael Fitzsimmons
- Jim CarreyWalter Getz
- Lisa Jane PerskyDelores Dodge
- Lucinda JenneyRosalie Testa
- Wil ShrinerArthur Nagle
Recommendations
- 100
Chicago Sun-Times
Peggy Sue Got Married is a lot of things - a human comedy, a nostalgic memory, a love story - but there are times when it is just plain creepy, because it awakens such vivid memories in us. - 100
Washington Post
Not since the heyday of Frank Capra, perhaps, has there been a movie that so seamlessly combines screwball comedy with get-out-your-handkerchiefs heart. Peggy Sue Got Married isn't about solving life's problems, it's about accepting them, in a world where love doesn't conquer all, but conquers enough. And in the hands of director Francis Coppola, that message makes what could have been merely a delightful lark about time travel into something much more. - 100
Los Angeles Times
You go to Peggy Sue Got Married expecting '60s nostalgia, "a blast from the past," Buddy Holly and lime-green leisure suits. You get all that, but nothing prepares you for the rush of real emotion the film generates, for its poignance, its reassurance or its high of pure pleasure. - 100
Chicago Tribune
Droll, pungent, and superbly told, Peggy Sue Got Married is more than a return to form for Francis Coppola. It's a film that reveals a new depth, a new sensitivity and a new sureness of technique for the 47-year-old director, a film that marks Coppola's entry into a rich, mature period. - 80
Time Out London
Ignore the ridiculous [spoiler omitted] 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. - 80
Time
Everything finally came together under the sensitive directorial hand of, yes, Francis Coppola. The supporting cast is splendid. The film's occasional lapses never puncture the airy tone; they are easily forgiven, like Peggy Sue and her friends, whose only sin was to grow up. 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. - 80
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. - 75
TV Guide Magazine
The film features good acting from almost everyone, the one notable exception being the annoying Cage who adopts a grating constricted voice for the role.
