Peggy Sue is a smooth-flowing exploration of the early 60's from the perspective of the mid 80's combined with teenage experiences from the perspective of a middle-aged mother. This movie has alot of fine moments, as when Kathleen Turner talks to her grandmother on the phone who was deceased in the present time. I've never seen any other time travel movie that makes you gulp like that. Kathleen Turner is great, as are all the supporting actors. Nicholas Cage over-acts and doesn't seem plausible (in real life he wasn't actually born in 1960 and had no feelings for it and actually acted like it was more like 1957 with the hair style and antics), but I guess with his uncle directing it, all that acting was unavoidable. He couldn't ruin this movie but it would have been even better with a more plausible, subtle, even more "square" guy. I really liked the nerdy genius accomplice and the beatnik boyfriend, as these people are certifiably genuine early 1960's people. The Mom, the Dad, the sister, the girlfriends - who wasn't good?

This movie is a straight-down-the-middle time trip for baby-boomers and it takes you out of the park. It's filled with pleasing and facile scenes. It is very well-directed and effortless in capturing its goal.


Interesting Premise.   September 9, 2002
 4 out of 4 found this review helpful

This is movie along the lines of Back to the Future, where Kathleen Turner returns to the past to see if she'd marry the same guy all over again (Nicholas Cage). It is a surprisingly refreshing movie, and I liked the idea of the confrontation between Turner and Cage, as Turner returns with the wisdom of age and ends up falling in love with all over again. (So much for wisdom, huh?) I won't spoil it for you, but there's a lot of other dynamics in this movie which makes it special. Recommended.


A surprisingly excellent movie.   August 27, 2002
 3 out of 3 found this review helpful

Peggy Sue got Married, is a great movie, as long as you take it for what it is. It's not a heavy movie, but's it well though out, smart, charming and a pleasure to watch. I loved it, and I think Kathleen Turner was rad* I would love to go throughhigh school as peggy Sue re-lived it.


fantastic "what if?" fable   May 20, 2002
 6 out of 10 found this review helpful

Kathleen Turner gives an enchanting performance in Francis Ford Coppola's delightful "what if?" fable PEGGY SUE GOT MARRIED.

Peggy Sue (Turner) is a disillusioned woman when she attends her high school reunion. Having just divorced her high school sweetheart (Nicolas Cage), and life, it seems, can't get worse. Faced with her old self, the old "if I knew then what I know now" idea comes into play, and when she is crowned Queen of the Reunion, she suddenly collapses and awakens as her teenaged self, back in high school.

Peggy both relishes and reviles the new choices she makes in her old life. Barbara Harris (FREAKY FRIDAY, FAMILY PLOT) has an all-too-brief role as Peggy's mother, and Catherine Hicks (TV's "7th Heaven") is luminous.

The DVD includes the trailer.


Love it   April 13, 2002
This was the first movie I ever saw with Nicolas Cage i it and I fell in love. The movie is great. I love stories about people goign back in time. This movie is a wonderful to say several young acters and actresses in what is probably some of their first films.