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- 1986
- PG-13
- TriStar Pictures
- 1 h 43 m
- 1986
- PG-13
- TriStar Pictures
- 1 h 43 m
Summary Peggy Sue (Kathleen Turner) faints at a high school reunion. When she wakes up, she finds herself in her own past, just before she finished school.
Directed By: Francis Ford Coppola
Written By: Jerry Leichtling, Arlene Sarner
- 1986
- PG-13
- TriStar Pictures
- 1 h 43 m
- 1986
- PG-13
- TriStar Pictures
- 1 h 43 m
Peggy Sue Got Married
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7.2
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Summary Peggy Sue (Kathleen Turner) faints at a high school reunion. When she wakes up, she finds herself in her own past, just before she finished school.
Directed By: Francis Ford Coppola
Written By: Jerry Leichtling, Arlene Sarner
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Metascore
Generally Favorable
Based on 15 Critic Reviews
75
80% Positive
12 Reviews
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13% Mixed
2 Reviews
2 Reviews
7% Negative
1 Review
1 Review
Metascore
Generally Favorable
Based on 15 Critic Reviews
75
80% Positive
12 Reviews
12 Reviews
13% Mixed
2 Reviews
2 Reviews
7% Negative
1 Review
1 Review
Droll, pungent, and superbly told, Peggy Sue Got Married 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.
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. Peggy Sue Got Married isn't about solving life's problems, it's about accepting them, in a world where love doesn't conquer all, but conquers enough. And in the hands of director Francis Coppola, that message makes what could have been merely a delightful lark about time travel into something much more.
This is handsomely made (cinematographer Jordan Cronenweth lights the reunion as if it were already part of some magical realm), but what lingers about the movie are the quieter, actorly moments.
Everything finally came together under the sensitive directorial hand of, yes, Francis Coppola. The supporting cast is splendid. The film's occasional lapses never puncture the airy tone; they are easily forgiven, like Peggy Sue and her friends, whose only sin was to grow up. This prom-night balloon of a movie floats easily above the year's other exercises in '50s nostalgia. If you dare reach for it, it will land smartly in your heart.
Peggy Sue is by no means a masterpiece of movie art, but it is an example of the sort of thoroughly enjoyable middle-brow Hollywood picture - clever, thoughtful, literate - that went missing about the time Peggy Sue got married. [10 Oct 1986]
Most of the time, Peggy Sue Got Married is either underdeveloped or simply not thought through. The way the film gets Peggy Sue into and out of the past is no less lame than the explanation for Bobby Ewing's recent resurrection in "Dallas." So much key information is missing or left uncertified or undramatized that the film appears to have been edited by termites.
It's grave, lumbering, arrhythmic, and bloated, an emotional hogwallow of catchpenny insights and easy sentimentality...In short, a real bagful.
User Score
Generally Favorable
Based on 17 User Ratings
7.2
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User Score
Generally Favorable
Based on 17 User Ratings
7.2
65% Positive
11 Ratings
11 Ratings
35% Mixed
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0% Negative
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Production Company
TriStar Pictures,
Rastar Pictures,
Zoetrope Studios,
Delphi V Productions
Release Date Oct 10, 1986
Duration 1 h 43 m
Rating PG-13
Tagline ...or will she?
Awards
Academy Awards, USA
• 3 Nominations
Golden Globes, USA
• 2 Nominations
Academy of Science Fiction, Fantasy & Horror Films, USA
• 3 Nominations
