Fresh
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.
Richard Corliss, TIME Magazine
Peggy Sue Got Married
Knowing what you know now, what would you do differently?
1986 · 1h 43m · PG-13
Comedy, Drama, Fantasy
Directed by
Francis Ford Coppola
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Peggy Sue Got Married
Overview
At her 25th high school reunion, Peggy Sue faints and awakens in 1960—back in her senior year, before her marriage and all her regrets. Given a second chance to relive her youth, she must decide whether to change the choices that shaped her life or embrace the past that made her who she is.
Director and cast
- Francis Ford Coppola Director
- Kathleen Turner as Peggy Sue
- Nicolas Cage as Charlie Bodell
- Barry Miller as Richard Norvik
- Catherine Hicks as Carol Heath
- Joan Allen as Maddy Nagle
- Kevin J. O'Connor as Michael Fitzsimmons
- Jim Carrey as Walter Getz
- Lisa Jane Persky as Delores Dodge
- Lucinda Jenney as Rosalie Testa
- Wil Shriner as Arthur Nagle
Critics on Rotten Tomatoes
Top critics, in their words
88%
Tomatometer
Rotten
It's grave, lumbering, arrhythmic, and bloated, an emotional hogwallow of catchpenny insights and easy sentimentality.
Pat Graham, Chicago Reader
Fresh
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.
Variety Staff, Variety
Rotten
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.
Vincent Canby, New York Times
Fresh
This time Coppola apparently simply wanted to make a movie, and put some characters on the screen, and tell a story. He has, all right. This is one of the best movies of the year.
Roger Ebert, Chicago Sun-Times
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