1986 · comedy · drama · fantasy
Peggy Sue Got Married
Directed by Francis Ford Coppola1h 43m1986
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.
Our read: Peggy Sue Got Married (1986) reads as a warm, kinetic, inventive comedy · drama · fantasy entry — gentle in intensity, intimate in scope, tender in temperature, ambivalent in outlook.
Warm, kinetic, gentle comedy / drama, inventive in texture. Ambivalent, intimate, tender.
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