It's not great by any means, but it's a pretty good movie that didn't leave me filled with regret for investing time in it.

The movie's neither hopeful in contrived ways, nor hopeless in different contrived ways. Somehow it manages to be wonderful

It is an exhilarating, distressing, funny and profound film, with one of the more memorable film scores in years,

This is a small, humorous movie in some ways, but it has a huge heart. What a nice experience.

Peggy Sue Got Married is such a weird film. On one hand, there are parts of the movie that are so magnificently directed that they've stayed with me all these years in spite of how weak the film is on the whole. For example, I wasn't born in the 1960s but those early scenes with Peggy Sue when she first travels back in time are pure magic. I not only can vicariously experience her feelings of awe and wonder at returning to the 1960s, I even become overcome with waves nostalgia about that time period even though I had no idea what life was like in 1960. Coppola really did a magnificent job there.Also, even if you didn't get a feel for the 1960s, those scenes captured perfectly an experience we've all had when we've become disenchanted with our lives today, a desire to revisit an earlier, more innocent time. I've actually had a dream very similar to Peggy Sue Got Married, except I dreamed that I had to returned to the 1980s. It was a very short dream, but I had the same warm and fuzzy feelings of nostalgia and a sense of happiness that I had "returned", so I could really relate to those scenes of Peggy Sue when she first returns to 1960.So as far as the first act of Peggy Sue Got Married, the film is wonderful. The rest of the film, on the other hand, not so much. Once you get past the initial scenes of Peggy readjusting to family and school life, things start to go south. The story begins to meander. It's basically one scene after another of Peggy Sue looking surprised that she's in the past, expressing happiness at seeing people who had long since passed or trying to explain future technology to a nerdy kid at school. Yes, there's a subplot involving her high school sweetheart. But that's about it. There's no tension to the story or no real statement being made. Like, there could've been tension about whether Peggy could return to the 1980s or not, but there's nothing. There could've been a statement about viewing the past through rose- tinted glasses. But, there's nothing profound being said. There are just little jokes about the past and the present, like a reference about boomboxes (portable radios being larger while everything gets smaller). Okay, funny and cute but so what?The second biggest problem with the movie was the casting. I did not like a lot of the actors in this. They either seemed miscast or were just terrible. Even though Barbara Harris was the right age to play Peggy Sue's mother, she didn't look old enough or have the right look of a 1960s parent like Don Murray did. She looked more like her sister than her mother, so all those scenes of her being motherly to Peggy Sue were just weird. Sofia Coppola was echhh...about as awkward as you could expect for a kid who was put in a movie for the obvious reasons. (Her gawky delivery of, "Teenagers are weird, and you're the weirdest," still lingers in my brain.)However, if I had to choose the worst actor of the bunch, it would be Nicolas Cage. He completely ruins the film. For no reason at all, he puts on this ridiculous voice that's just shy of Jerry Lewis in the Nutty Professor. It's just so obnoxious. But it also ruins the character and the backstory between him and Peggy Sue. He's supposed to be the cool kid who she falls in love with and winds up marrying and yet, ironically, comes out looking like the dorkiest, most immature and most annoying kid in school, even worse than the nerdy classmate. It was so bad that I spent the entire duration of the movie asking what she could've seen in him. Yes, the explanation was that Peggy Sue in 1960 was more naive and clueless but Nicolas Cage made him so dorky and unlikable that I still had a hard time believing that even as a naive teenager she could've fallen in love with him. Also, he was far too young to playing this character in middle age. Were it not for the first act of the movie, I would've rated Peggy Sue Got Married much higher but it gets a 6/10 from me for the story and Nicolas Cage's acting.

As a young woman who became an actress Kathleen Turner was very lucky. She got to star in a few cracking good movies early on in her career. Body Heat, Romancing The Stone, The Man With Two Brains & this one Peggy Sue Got Married. If there is a God, well he certainly smiled on Kathleen. Peggy Sue Got Married is one of those movies it is almost impossible not to like & guaranteed to cheer you up if your in a bit of a crap mood. Peggy Sue's marriage is on the rocks & she is in the throes of a divorce. When she attends a High-School reunion dance she somehow gets transported back in time to the 1950's when she was a teenager. Here she meets her lover & future husband played by handsome Nicolas Cage as well as her younger parents played by Barbara Harris & Don Murray. Inevitably people change, (hopefully for the better?), as they get older & the movie begs the obvious question as to whether you might do things differently given another chance. The class clever-clogs & budding scientist is played by Barry Miller. Like most school smart-arses he is not liked by his classmates but an older, wiser Peggy Sue thrown back in time gets to know him much better & like him. The movie's title is taken from the old Buddy Holly hit recording of the same name used in the opening & closing credits. What follows is a really good fantasy movie that will put just about everyone reminiscing about their youth. Great Stuff!.

I saw this film for the first time two or three years ago and was decidedly underwhelmed. However, as with "The Dark Crystal" and "The Lady Vanishes", I adored it on the second viewing. Kathleen Turner is excellent in the title role, playing the world weary 43-year-old Peggy Sue who finds herself in the body of her 17-year-old self to perfection. Nicolas Cage, the nephew of the director Francis Ford Coppola, is every bit her equal as her future husband Charlie. This is a very successful example of nepotism, something for which the Coppola family is well known. In recent years, he's become almost a parody of himself and has starred in some awful films but this is one of his best ones.The film has a very strong supporting cast with the exception of Sofia Coppola, a less successful example of nepotism. What's really interesting about it is that it features three actors (Cage, Jim Carrey and Joan Allen) near the beginning of their careers who went on to bigger things in major or supporting roles and lovely cameos from three elderly actors (Leon Ames in his final film, Maureen O'Sullivan and John Carradine) at or near the end of theirs. Coincidentally, I've seen the latter three in films from the 1930s and/or 1940s in the last few weeks so it's fascinating to see them in later life.The premise of the film is relatively simple but it's extraordinarily effective, extremely relatable and timeless. We all wonder what it would be like to live our lives over again knowing what we do now and we all wish that we could see dead parents, grandparents, etc. so we can tell them how much we love them and miss them. I'd give anything to see my grandparents again.

I can't understand how this amazing film is rated so low. Yes the plot seems insignificant, it's almost as if Coppola is doing a Spielberg film here, some even dared calling it Coppola's back to the future - it's not. It does take place in a small town, and has some weird fantastic plot twist at its base but that's just the superficial skin deep external features of the film. Coppola was never so masterful in his command over cinema. Have a look at the opening scene see how the camera moves - the camera movement speaks, it tells you every thing about this movie in the opening sequence with plain camera movement, it doesn't shove it down your throats but lets you see it and get it on your own. I never loved Coppola as much as I did with his three "smallish" movies - Rumble Fish,The Outsiders and this one which for me is the cherry on top of the icing. It's acted superbly see if you notice Helen Hunt and Jim Carrey without looking them up at the credit list. Summing it all up: it's a small story of a woman unhappy about the way her life turned out - but it's done so well and it's such an example of pure cinema, every movie lover should have a look at this masterpiece -just do it with an open mind.