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Actors: Kathleen Turner, Nicolas Cage, Barry Miller, Catherine Hicks, Joan Allen, Kevin J. O'Connor
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| Review Summary and Plot Commentary about Peggy Sue Got Married |
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Peggy Sue (Turner) is a 43-year-old housewife and mother whose marriage to Charlie Bodell (Cage), the cheating husband who got her pregnant at 18, looks close to collapse. When she starts to plan for her 25th high school reunion, she is somehow magically transported back to the early 1960s and given a chance to change the entire course of her life since high school. She gets to speak once again with her long-deceased grandparents, spends more time with the sweet high school nerd Richard (Miller), and becomes fascinated with a "beatnik" figure named Michael (O'Connor), but eventually discovers she would have made many of the same choices. This 1986 film directed by Francis Ford Coppola seems rather light for him. Though 30-ish Turner doesn't really look like either a teen or a homemaker in her 40s, she does an excellent job of bringing Peggy Sue and her issues to life. The supporting cast includes Maureen O'Sullivan, John Carradine, Helen Hunt, Sofia Coppola, and young Jim Carrey. The Marshall Crenshaw Band cameos as the reunion entertainment.
--David Loftus, Resident Scholar
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| Analysis of Peggy Sue Got Married |
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Ratings are on a 1-10 scale (Low to High)
Plot
Time/era of movie:
- 1980's-1999
Romance/Love/Hugging
Yes
Kind of romance:
- romance (general)
- inconveniently married while playing footsy
Main Character
Identity:
- Female
Profession/status:
- homemaker/wife
Age:
- 40's-50's
Is this an ordinary person caught up in events?
Yes
Hair color?
- blonde
Hair type
- (woman) medium/shoulderlgn wavey
Events of movie makes character more...
- caring
Ethnicity/Nationality
- White (American)
How sensitive is this character?
- middling sensitive to others' feelings
Sense of humor?
- Mostly serious with occasional humor
Intelligence
- Average intelligence
Secondary Main Character
Identity:
- Male
Body type
- (man) very skinny
How much in movie?
- 60%
Ethnicity/Nationality
- White (American)
Main Adversary
Identity:
- Male
Age:
- a teen
Profession/status:
- student
How much of work is main antagonist actually present in:
- 40%
Hair color
- brunette (Black)
Hair type
- (man) short/standard wavey
Ethnicity/Nationality
- White (American)
How sensitive is this character?
- middling sensitive to others' feelings
Setting
United States
Yes
The US:
- West
Small town?
Yes
Small town people:
- nice, like Andy/Opie/Aunt Bee
Misc setting
- school
Style
Accounts of torture and death?
- no torture/death
Movie makes you feel...
- thoughtful
If soundtrack VERY NOTICEABLE...
- Classic/oldies rock
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