Don't listen to the negative reviews

This is one of the best movies I’ve seen in a very long time. You have to go and see this on the big screen.

An old-fashioned movie made with new-fashioned finesse.

This is a gorgeous movie made by a gorgeous spirit.

Peggy Sue Got Married is a brutal movie with a very poorly developed plot and a cast that are enthusiastic, but never bring us in. It has an immensely muffled plot that brings up a lot of great ideas, but never delivers on the potential of these ideas, passing by and jumping on to something else that it will also never establish fully, it had a complete lack of concentration. Farncis Ford Coppolla clearly has a passion and intrigue for comedy, but certainly not an eye for it. Not a single joke landed properly for me and I could not help but think that was as a result of the director of The Godfather and Apocalypse Now trying to bring us a goofy, funny movie, it just does not translate. Kathleen Turner is also very ineffective in the lead role, she had no charisma and very little embodiment of her character, I was never convinced by her, nor did I feel like she was enjoying herself. Give this one a miss. Tries to do so much and falls flat as a result. I could not possibly recommend Peggy Sue Got Married.A woman on the verge of divorce magically travels back in time to her high school years. Best Performance: Jim Carrey / Worst Performance: Kathleen Turner

From the same mind that brought audiences the Godfather trilogy, Apocalypse Now, and Tucker: The Man and His Dream, comes the stylistically similar Francis Ford Coppola film, Peggy Sue Got Married. Telling the story of a woman on the edge, Peggy Sue, and her high school reunion, Peggy Sue Got Married proves a nice time portal for all of us to walk through and meet our former selves. Not many things bring back such pure unrelenting nostalgia like one's senior year of high school. The transformative stage in which we are discovering who we are and who we want to become is purely illustrated in this Coppola film.Dreading going to her 25th reunion occurring in the midst of her separation from her high school sweetheart due to infidelity, Peggy Sue (Kathleen Turner) dons a dress reminiscent of the type of dress she would have worn all those years ago. Returning to the reunion as only half of the class couple proved daunting for Peggy. After wading through the subtleties, a few of her former friends asked outright about her absent husband, Charlie Bodell (Nicolas Cage). Depressed, and somewhat longing, Peggy goes through the proceedings of the reunion. After catching up with her well-intentioned former best friends, Catherine Hicks (Carol Heath) and Rosalie Testa (Lucinda Jenney), Peggy remains disconnected and starts to question all that didn't happen in her life. After being named class queen; Peggy succumbs to her doubts, faints, and awakes in her senior year in 1960, with the chance to do differently everything she wished she could.Peggy Sue Got Married proved to be a much more emotionally raw film than I ever expected. The nostalgia presented hits on a level any audience member can relate to and feel deeply. Coppola does an exceptional job shooting scenes in which Peggy stands out in her high school days, as she well should having the mentality of a 42- year- old woman. I felt that was this film's greatest strength. Not much was done to Kathleen Turner to make her look more like a teenager when she went back in time. The point of the film, however, is that Peggy goes back to a time in life in which we live in the moment only, with the feeling that what is going on at that point is the most important thing in the world and will shape the rest of our lives. Peggy, however, comes to this time with an extra 25 years of experience and foresight. She noticeably sticks out in the crowd because she is different from the crowd. She learns the lesson, which even she needed to learn, the choices you make in high school do not have to define your life.

So, in 1985, there were 2 time travel movies back to the sixties. Sure i could play the game of similarities / differences between this movie and « back to the future » but i think it would be more important to know who was the first to have this idea between Coppola or Gale / Zemekicks ? This first one had really discovered a big gold nugget but if it was Coppola, he doesn't get rich with it because his Peggy is very disappointing : Turner doesn't look like a teen and thus, she is a disaster for the part. As soon as this main casting is flawed, the whole movie is put on wrong tracks. Next her adventure is depressive, too adult oriented. Cage looks totally ridiculous except when he sings. Finally, except the wardrobe, the props and the sets, there is not a lot of fun here.

Peggy Sue Bodell attends her 25 year high school reunion, only to collapse and be transported back to 1960, her senior year. The more she wants to change things, the more she discovers that she makes the same choices as she did before, with a few adjustments. Although she starts by wishing she was a free spirit, and the desire to run away with the local bad boy, she discovers he wants to be a polygamist writer whose wives would take care of chickens for their income. This is at odds with her personal values and she realizes that she is not what she thought she was. There is more self-discovery in this movie than there is learning about those around her, but she does pick up some lessons from them along the way.A side note: I noticed on one review that I read someone was using the scene with Peggy's mother having her jewelry appraised to indicate that she was becoming an independent woman in the early days of the women's movement. I interpreted it that Peggy's parents were dealing with the same problem that led to Peggy and Charlie's problems, which she says herself - "house payments"! Her father owns a hat shop, a business which is surely on the decline at this time, foreshadowing family financial catastrophe in the years ahead. Did anyone else think this, or was there something else going on in your opinion?