Film Forum

U.S., 1986
Directed by Francis Ford Coppola
Starring Kathleen Turner, Nicolas Cage, Barry Miller, Catherine Hicks, Jim Carrey, Helen Hunt
Approx. 103 min. 35mm.

“Peggy Sue Bodell (Kathleen Turner) isn’t even sure she wants to go to her 25th high school reunion. Recently separated from Charlie (Nicolas Cage), the husband she had to marry at 18, even the idea of turning up where everyone will ask, ‘Where’s Crazy Charlie?,’ the wackiest businessman in TV ads, makes her cringe... As they’re crowning the Reunion King and Queen, Peggy Sue faints, coming to in 1960, a 43-year-old in an 18-year-old’s body. She knows the future all too well, from panty hose to the Pill. She’s seen Charlie give up his dreams of being a singer and slip into the family business—with a bit of philandering on the side. Apparently stuck reliving her last weeks of high school, should she should muck with her destiny or not?” – Sheila Benson, Los Angeles Times

Reviews

“Here you don’t see Coppola the camera wizard, you see Coppola the storyteller, the maker of fables. And by the end, you don’t feel warmly just toward the movie, but toward the man behind it.”
 – Paul Attanasio, Washington Post

“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.”
 – Richard Corliss, TIME Magazine