Peggy Sue Got Married (1986)
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Reviews Counted: 22 Fresh: 19 Rotten:3 Average Rating: 6.7/10
Runtime: 1 hr 44 mins
Synopsis:
Francis Ford Coppola's seriocomic drama is the charming tale of middle-aged Peggy Sue Bodell (Kathleen Turner). As an unhappy mother of two, considering divorce from her weasel of a husband, it doesn't seem like a great time to have to attend her 25-year high school reunion and contemplate... [More]
Genre: Comedies
Starring: Kathleen Turner, Nicolas Cage, Barry Miller, Catherine Hicks, Maureen McVerry
Director: Francis Ford Coppola
Producer: Paul R. Gurian
Screenwriter: Jerry Leichting, Arlene Sarner
Composer: John Barry
Producer: Paul R. Gurian
Screenwriter: Jerry Leichting, Arlene Sarner
Composer: John Barry
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Reviews
It's grave, lumbering, arrhythmic, and bloated, an emotional hogwallow of catchpenny insights and easy sentimentality.
12/11/07 06:53 PM
Top Critic
The movie has many lovely moments and just as many dead spots, but its strengths make this atypical film from Francis Coppola a worthwhile viewing experience.
12/11/07 06:52 PM
What makes this treatment unique is that the jokes aren't so much derivative of pop culture, but are instead found in the learned wisdom of a middle-aged woman reacting to her own teenage dilemmas.
12/11/07 06:51 PM
Top Critic Centering on a female protag (well-played by Kathleen Turner) and dealing with a similar universal fantasy of revisiting your past, Coppola's small-town fable is a wonderful companion piece to Back to the Future, which was released a year earlier.
04/04/07 09:36 AM
Ignore the ridiculous happy ending of this film, and you have a much more fatalistic exercise in which Coppola eschews easy laughs in favour of the exposure of feeling and the fact that these people's lives, however empty, matter to them.
02/09/06 03:16 AM
A very entertaining and involving movie boasting a cornucopia of delightful comic moments and scenes which go straight for the heart.
08/18/04 04:03 PM
Miss Turner's self-assured comic timing goes a long way toward salvaging the film, providing both moral and physical dimension to a role that scarcely exists.
05/20/03 05:07 PM
Top Critic
Peggy Sue Got maried isn't a perfect film, but it sure makes you feel good.
09/10/02 08:10 AM
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