Part of Essential Coppola and Music City Mondays
Knowing what you know now, what would you do differently?
Peggy Sue Bodell (Kathleen Turner) attends her 25-year high school reunion after separating from her cheating husband, Charlie (Nicolas Cage). She regrets the decisions she has made in her life, such as getting pregnant by Charlie in high school. When she faints at the reunion, she awakens in 1960. Given the chance to relive her life, she changes many things. However, some choices are more complicated, as she begins to see young Charlie’s charm and true feelings.
Named after a 1959 Buddy Holly song, overflowing with R&B and Doo Wop hits of the time, and featuring one of our favorite things: a singin’ Nic Cage!
“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 (Oct 8, 1986) “Not since the heyday of Frank Capra, perhaps, has there been a movie that so seamlessly combines screwball comedy with get-out-your-handkerchiefs heart…. Here you don't see Coppola the camera wizard, you see Coppola the storyteller, the maker of fables. And by the end, you don't feel warmly just toward the movie, but toward the man behind it.” —Paul Attanasio, Washington Post (Oct 10, 1986) “Droll, pungent, and superbly told, PEGGY SUE GOT MARRIES is more than a return to form for Francis Coppola. It's a film that reveals a new depth, a new sensitivity and a new sureness of technique for the 47-year-old director, a film that marks Coppola's entry into a rich, mature period.” —Dave Kehr, Chicago Tribune
