Peggy Sue got Married Review

Peggy Sue got Married official movie poster.

'Peggy Sue got Married' is a movie directed by Francis Ford Coppola in 1986. It stars Kathleen Turner as Peggy Sue, and Nicolas Cage (Coppola's nephew) as Charlie Bodell. It is the story of 43 year old Peggy Sue, who is in the middle of a divorce with her infidel high school sweetheart, Charlie Bodell. On going to an organised high school reunion, she meets up with her old friends and recalls lots of memories. When Charlie appears at the party, she gets anxious and when she gets elected Queen for the night, she just cannot take any more and she faints. When she wakes up she finds herself in a blood donating infirmary, with a poster stating 1960. She is confused and see's all her friends and people she knows from high school. After a while she comes to terms with the fact that she may have travelled back in time, and she realises this is a chance for her to start her life over, and to avoid marrying Charlie. However, she finds herself falling in love with him all over again, even with the problems she faces as a teenager.

This movie has a mixed morale of 'second chances', and 'you can't really change the future'. Peggy Sue tries to help others around her, and most of all, she tries changing her future. I like it firstly because of the late 50's setting and music, but also because of the actual story. There isn't much of a plot, just Peggy Sue trying to alter the future using what she knows, but it is still a heartfelt story of love, betrayal, jealousy, music, and a teenager's problems. There also are many references to Dion and the Belmonts, a group popular during the late 50's, the main setting for the film. At one point, we are even shown clips of the actual footage of the group performing 'A Teenager in Love'. There are also some inconsistencies. During the reunion, we are shown a woman in a wheel chair called Rosalie, who doesn't seem to have a counterpart. This is very confusing, and it may ruin the movie if you are trying to figure where her 1960 counterpart is all through out the movie. In the original script, Rosalie was meant to be a gymnast who was in an accident, putting her in a wheel chair. Peggy Sue was originally meant to try and stop the accident from becoming to help Rosalie. Although when the movie was edited, it left a loose end in the movie that was never explained, which is kind of a shame.

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