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Peggy Sue Got Married

Peggy Sue Got Married

Comedy · Drama · Fantasy · 1986

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.

Movie details

Peggy Sue Got Married

“Knowing what you know now, what would you do differently?”

1986 Comedy · Drama · Fantasy 1h 43m

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6.1 / 10

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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.

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The people responsible.

Directed by

Francis Ford Coppola

Written by

Arlene Sarner · Jerry Leichtling

Kathleen Turner

Kathleen Turner

Peggy Sue

Nicolas Cage

Nicolas Cage

Charlie Bodell

Barry Miller

Barry Miller

Richard Norvik

Catherine Hicks

Catherine Hicks

Carol Heath

Joan Allen

Joan Allen

Maddy Nagle

Kevin J. O'Connor

Kevin J. O'Connor

Michael Fitzsimmons

Jim Carrey

Jim Carrey

Walter Getz

Court is in session

Put Peggy Sue Got Married on trial.

Two incompatible taste archetypes. One film. Read the arguments, then issue a completely binding cultural ruling.

The defence The Sentimental Softie

“Sincerity is not manipulation.”

The film risks embarrassment to make emotion communal, and that openness is harder than fashionable detachment.

The prosecution The Cool Ironist

“The strings are showing.”

Every cue tells you exactly what to feel and when, leaving sentiment to do the work character should have done.