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FilmBuff1994 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

Hotwok2013 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!.

bkoganbing It's Peggy Sue's 25 high school reunion and what started as a dream marriage to high school sweetheart Nicholas Cage has gone sour with his infidelity. The two are getting divorced and attend separately. But an accident as Kathleen Turner is accepting her reunion queen crown knocks her unconscious and she's transported back to her high school days with all the folks she's enjoying happy and unhappy memories.Coming right down to it Peggy Sue Got Married is a combination of The Wizard Of Oz and It's A Wonderful Life. All three films involve transportation to alternate universes for the protagonists. All three films have the same moral, that there's no place like home.Kathleen Turner got her career role and an Oscar nomination for Best Actress in Peggy Sue Got Married. You believe her both as middle age woman and teenager who's in love, but retains all her memories of her future and now is questioning what she did, did she make the right life choices. A whole lot like George Bailey. Other performances I enjoyed were that of Barry Miller who became a famous scientist, but was the school nerd in the day and Kevin O'Connor as the beatnik rebel who gives the English teacher hell for liking Hemingway over Kerouac.Three survivors of Hollywood's Golden Age gave some great performances. Leon Ames and Maureen O'Sullivan as her maternal grandparents. And John Carradine who was doing mostly Grade Z horror flicks at the time was great in a role as the Grand Poobah of Ames's lodge. Love those incantations he was giving. A great role to chew the scenery and look normal doing it.Peggy Sue Got Married also got Oscar nominations for Cinematography and Costume Design. It's great viewing and a whole ensemble cast does some really fabulous work.

HillstreetBunz It is Kathleen's deeply touching performance that holds the centre of this movie. The central conceit of "If I knew then what I know now" is nothing new (it wasn't in 1986 when this movie came out either) but what strikes me as unusual about the film, is the way the central characters foibles are presented with so little judgement, the reflection seeming to be just that youth has its follies., and so it seems does experience. With love, all is forgivable and everything can be overcome. Hardly a new perspective, and were it not for the wry script and well defined and beautifully played performances the story might be an overblown, twee nostalgia fest. But it's not. It speaks to the pain of disappointment in ones life, to things that might have been, to pain and loss and love and maturity and life's experience with an edge. Not coarsely, not by screaming at the audience, but through some truly tender moments, such Peggy Sue hearing her late grandmothers voice on the telephone, or coming to the aid of those she didn't understand so well as a girl. Turner is an intelligent actress (sadly underused for the last twenty years) capable of taking the audience deep into her characters own heart and mind, and when she gave this Oscar nominated performance she was possibly at the height of her career.