This week we’re babbling about nostalgia-fest Peggy Sue Got Married (1986) directed by Francis Ford Coppola and starring Kathleen Turner as Peggy Sue, in a dazzling lead performance. It also features another couple of Coppolas: the overacting, nasally-challenged-Nosferatu himself, Nicolas Cage, as Peggy’s childhood sweetheart and soon to be divorced husband, alongside future award-winning director Sofia Coppola, as Peggy’s little sister.
Put on your prom dress and travel back to the 60s..! where we encounter the howling-puke poetry of teen beatnik (and Peggy’s secret crush), Michael, visit time-travelling cult lodges, and you’re unsure, discover that the best way to tell if you are real or not, is to hurl yourself in front of a fire truck. (Don’t) try this at home, kids.
The film is steeped in nostalgia for a time that probably didn’t actually exist. But whilst sugar-coated memories are not always to be re-lived, the film is well worth a look, and is an odd, but oddly satisfying revisit for our 2024 eyes. The film also unexpectedly led us to the next movie we’ll be babbling about. However, we're getting ahead of ourselves with that one…
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