Synopsis
Knowing what you know now, what would you do differently?
Peggy Sue faints at a high school reunion. When she wakes up she finds herself in her own past, just before she finished school.
1986 Directed by Francis Ford Coppola
Peggy Sue faints at a high school reunion. When she wakes up she finds herself in her own past, just before she finished school.
Kathleen Turner Nicolas Cage Barry Miller Catherine Hicks Joan Allen Kevin J. O'Connor Jim Carrey Lisa Jane Persky Lucinda Jenney Wil Shriner Barbara Harris Don Murray Sofia Coppola Maureen O'Sullivan Leon Ames Randy Bourne Helen Hunt Don Stark Marshall Crenshaw Chris Donato Robert Crenshaw Tom Teeley Graham Maby Ken Grantham Sigrid Wurschmidt Glenn Withrow Harry Basil John Carradine Sachi Parker Show All…
Marko Costanzo Lee Dichter Richard Bryce Goodman Louis Bertini Tom Fleischman Thomas A. Gulino Bitty O'Sullivan-Smith Michael Kirchberger Neil L. Kaufman Elisha Birnbaum
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Ok sorry but this literally happened to me when I took shrooms alone in my parents basement during covid and then looked at my high school yearbook
Nicolas Cage and Jim Carrey in the same movie BEFORE they were famous? And they're in a DOO-WOP GROUP?? Coppola you absolute legend
when i'm in my forties, when i have kids and decades of memories, i'll watch this, and i'll reflect on all the pains and joys of adolescence, the mistakes, the beauty, the sexual experiences, the regrets, the unforgettable moments of perfection and everything else in between. right now i'm in the middle of mine and i'm already grappling with my existence, my future, my mistakes. and i see this and i think about life changing so drastically, i think about forgetting what my mum looks like young, how my dad smiled, my gran's voice and very presence, about my grandparents not being in the world, about my friends dying, about the fucking turbulent existence i've got ahead of me and…
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Francis Ford Coppola's filmography becomes immediately more interesting once you move past the big 4 (The Godfather 1/2, The Conversation, and Apocalypse Now). Not that those aren't great movies, it's pretty evident that they are, but Coppola's work past the 1970s is filled with gems, much like this one: Peggy Sue Got Married. What an emotional, easy-going movie about the nature of memory, about re-living the past and reckoning with loss. Basically designed to shed tears (that John Barry score is lovely), it still provides a comedic center with Nicolas Cage in a wild early performance, and it balances the conventions of the high-school drama with the melancholy of Peggy's encounters with the past. Time is all we have,…
Francis Ford Coppola's cinematic legacy:
1. Directed The Godfather
2. Directed Apocalypse Now
3. Accurately predicted, in 1986, how unique Nicolas Cage's hair would look 20 years later.
Much more intimate and personal than Back to the Future, and my preferred ‘universal fantasy of revisiting your past” 80’s boomer nostalgia movie.
Kathleen Turner is stellar (as usual) as Peggy Sue, reacting to her teenage issues with a plethora of life knowledge already under her belt. Nicolas Cage is terrific as Charlie, that devious nosferatu-esque sneaking in the window scene still makes me cackle, and the way he utters words like intercourse and wang are next level lol. This whole cast is great tbh, so I dunno guys, I love this movie, it’s sentimental without being overly saccharine, funny without going too over the top, and the humor isn’t explicitly focused on pop culture as a constant gag.
Coppola’s depiction…
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A fantasy of re-experiencing life. Not as it exactly occurred, but as a dream of what if's. Peggy visiting her grandparents is one of Coppola's greatest scenes - a thunderstorm of wisdom and emotion.
The scene of Cage, having just snuck into Peggy's room with total Nosferatu hands, falling apart as he tries to assure her that he will be somebody while she can only think of the future she knows awaits him, is maybe the most moving moment in Coppola's work, at least until Val Kilmer acted out the director's own grief for his dead child 25 years later.
High school looks really good from up here.
Like standing in a strip mall watching the shops close down at the end of the day, the crowds thinning.
Coppola doing traditional filmmaking and then phasing into his own register of experimental classicism, this is a straight-up masterpiece of the high-school genre. most of this film is framed within windows or mirrors (one of my favorite things), Peggy Sue lost in endless corridors of her own past, navigating the complexities of her own life. All the other characters are stuck behind things, their paths are concrete... "this is the happiest time of your life." Joy, care, love for other humans reigns supreme in this film, Nicolas Cage is lovely in one…