Peggy Sue Got Married

Director: Francis Ford Coppola
Cast: Kathleen Turner, Nicholas Cage, Helen Hunt, Joan Allen, Jim Carrey
Genre: Comedy/Drama/Fantasy 1986
Running time: 103 mins. 
Rating:★★

If you could live your life all over again, would you change anything? Peggy Sue (Kathleen Turner) gets the chance to answer this tantalizing question.

At a high school reunion, Peggy Sue is haunted by the memories that are tied to her high school sweetheart and soon to be ex-husband, Charlie Bodell (Nicholas Cage). After being chosen, once again, as prom queen, she faints and is transported back to herself just before she graduated high school. Will she make the same mistakes twice?

A Back to the Future-like event that makes one realize that things happen for a reason. You can't change the past, only the future.  Nevertheless, the film only skims the surface of time travel in a somewhat campy way. Of course, a fantasy story won't be complete with a nerd to assist Peggy-Sue's problem. The nerd's there, but not enough for you to give two shits about his bond with Turner's character in the same manner as Marty McFly and Dr. Emmett Brown. The film delves into a self-indulgent, depressed housewife's daydream of trying to not fall in love with her high school sweetheart and then caving in because of her "kids." What a lot of smoke up the ass! A fluffy light-hearted film for those who don't want to make their brains work so hard and dream in "La-La Land." There is no real character development, just a sequence of events that one woman can't change from her past, no matter what she does....sooo enjoy the trip down memory lane? Hmmm....come on Coppola you're better than this garbage!