At her 25th high school reunion, Peggy Sue faints and awakens in 1960—back in her senior year, before her marriage and all her regrets. Given a second chance to relive her youth, she must decide whether to change the choices that shaped her life or embrace the past that made her who she is.
Acting
Turner carries every scene; Cage's Elvis-impersonator voice is unhinged.
Direction
Coppola finds genuine melancholy in a silly premise.
Production
1960 recreation avoids cheap parody through lived-in detail.
Director
Francis Ford Coppola
Kathleen Turner
Peggy Sue
Nicolas Cage
Charlie Bodell
Barry Miller
Richard Norvik
Catherine Hicks
Carol Heath
Joan Allen
Maddy Nagle
Kevin J. O'Connor
Michael Fitzsimmons
Jim Carrey
Walter Getz
Lisa Jane Persky
Delores Dodge
Lucinda Jenney
Rosalie Testa
Wil Shriner
Arthur Nagle
Barbara Harris
Evelyn Kelcher
Don Murray
Jack Kelcher
Sofia Coppola
Nancy Kelcher
Maureen O'Sullivan
Elizabeth Alvorg
Leon Ames
Barney Alvorg
Trivia, insights & behind the scenes
Cage based his odd vocal affectation on a real person—poet and cartoon character Pokey from Gumby. Coppola allegedly hated it but kept it because Turner played off it so well.
The film's title comes from the Buddy Holly song Peggy Sue Got Married, which Holly recorded just before his 1959 death—making the 1960 setting a world where rock 'n' roll's future already hangs in the balance.
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