Ok, let me start off by saying that I definitely feel that Peggy Sue Got Married is your classic “chick flick”. It has all the elements that women love, and men can’t understand.
Peggy Sue is divorced from her high school sweetheart Charlie, and is very unhappy, but finds herself going with her daughter to her high school reunion anyways. She faints and when she wakes up she is back in high school in 1960!
She keeps trying to break up with Charlie, since she knows how their future ends up; but Charlie refuses (how romantic).
All in all she remembers why it was that she loved Charlie, and realizes that no matter what they are destined to be together. When she returns to the present Charlie is there and apologizes for everything they have been through and wants to try to work things out.
This is one of the best endings to a movie. Her going back in time didn’t change anything, but made her realize that she and Charlie belong together. It doesn’t erase everything they have gone through, but when she wakes up she is ready to try again, as is Charlie. It didn’t magically erase their life and trials and create some fake happy-go-lucky, corny ending… but gave a (somewhat..) realistic ending.
An excellent, excellent movie!!
Cast
- Kathleen Turner
- Nicolas Cage
- Barry Miller
- Catherine Hicks
- Joan Allen
- Kevin J. O’Connor
- Jim Carrey
- Maureen O’Sullivan