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Peggy Sue Got Married
1986
A charming twist on the Rip van Winkle fairy tale, Francis Ford Coppola's PEGGY SUE GOT MARRIED tells the story of Peggy Sue Bodell (Kathleen Turner), a 43-year-old wife and mother who, while attending her high school reunion, faints and wakes up back in 1960. Peggy Sue lives with her mom and dad, attends high school, and dates .. Read more
| Starring | Kathleen Turner, Nicolas Cage, Barry Miller, Catherine Hicks |
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| Director | Francis Ford Coppola |
| Genres | Comedy |
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Peggy Sue Got Married
A charming twist on the Rip van Winkle fairy tale, Francis Ford Coppola's PEGGY SUE GOT MARRIED tells the story of Peggy Sue Bodell (Kathleen Turner), a 43-year-old wife and mother who, while attending her high school reunion, faints and wakes up back in 1960. Peggy Sue lives with her mom and dad, attends high school, and dates her future husband (Nicolas Cage). Will knowing what her future holds make Peggy Sue change her life while she has the chance?
| Starring | Kathleen Turner, Nicolas Cage, Barry Miller, Catherine Hicks, Jim Carrey, Joan Allen, Leon Ames, Barbara Harris, Helen Hunt, Don Murray, Maureen O'Sullivan, Lisa Jane Persky, Wil Shriner, Lucinda Jenney, Sofia Coppola, Kevin J. O'Connor |
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| Director | Francis Ford Coppola |
| Studio | UCA |
| Run time | DVD: 1 hr 38 mins |
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| Genres | Comedy |
| Language | DVD: English |
| Dubbed | French, German, Italian, Spanish |
| Subtitles | DVD: Arabic, Bulgarian, Croatian, Czech, Danish, Dutch, English, Finnish, French, Greek, Hebrew, Hungarian, Icelandic, Italian, Norwegian, Polish, Portuguese, Romanian, Spanish, Swedish, Turkish |
| Released | DVD: 04 Mar 2005 Production year: 1986 |
| Format | DVD |
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In production around the same time as Robert Zemeckis's time-travel blockbuster Back to the Future, this bittersweet comedy was originally to star Debra Winger before Kathleen Turner got the nod and turned in an Oscar-nominated performance. It's no surprise that Francis Ford Coppola wasn't the first choice director, as this is hardly his sort of territory. He overplays the Capra card and spends too much time analysing Peggy Sue's responses to revisiting her youth, rather than letting us make up our own minds. Turner is sublime, beautifully re-creating the traits of teenagehood, while Nicolas Cage (whose performance was originally slated in many quarters) is amazing as the boy she knows will grow up into a slob.
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It plays like an extended Twilight Zone, but with plenty of interesting details to back up an excellent leading performance.
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2 out of 2 people found this review helpful
Good peformances - poor pacing
Coppola does well to exploit the nascent talents of Carrey, Cage, Hunt, O'Connor, and Coppola (Sofia.) Kathryn Turner's performance stands out like a beacon of maturity and masterful nuance. However, his pacing badly lets him down. Scenes queue up one behind another like pensioners at a bus stop on a rainy day, each waiting their own rheumatic turn.
The idea is a lovely one, it is better to learn to accept the consequences of one's youthful decisions then to spend time wishing they were otherwise. After all they may not have been that bad after all. -
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2 out of 2 people found this review helpful
Good peformances - poor pacing
Coppola does well to exploit the nascent talents of Carrey, Cage, Hunt, O'Connor, and Coppola (Sofia.) Kathryn Turner's performance stands out like a beacon of maturity and masterful nuance. However, his pacing badly lets him down. Scenes queue up one behind another like pensioners at a bus stop on a rainy day, each waiting their own rheumatic turn.
The idea is a lovely one, it is better to learn to accept the consequences of one's youthful decisions then to spend time wishing they were otherwise. After all they may not have been that bad after all. -
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A charming twist on the Rip van Winkle fairy tale, Francis Ford Coppola's PEGGY SUE GOT MARRIED tells the story of Peggy Sue Bodell (Kathleen Turner), a 43-year-old wife and mother who, while ... -