Why did PEGGY SUE get married?

[MikeBSG]

I probably ought to give this movie a second try. I thought it was okay in 1986. I was a huge Kathleen Turner fan then. It's too bad she hasn't been in more movies, but I guess she has had success on the stage.

[CharlieT]

Actually, Peggy Sue got married because she was in the "family way" because of her one-nighter with Charlie (Nicholas Cage). This was the proper way in the fifties.

I was surprised to see Leon Ames as her grandfather. I didn't realize he was still around when this movie was made.

I think the appeal of this movie comes from the common fantasy of being able to go back to our youth knowing what we know now and how we would do everything differently. It's a fun film and I know it would have gotten a thumbs down from Gene Siskel. (That's how I knew which films to watch back in the seventies and eighties. If Siskel hated it, I knew I would like it. )