"Peggy Sue Got Married" is Truly Coppola's Masterpiece

Nicholas Cage (Coppola) is the big festering open sore that keeps this movie from being a masterpiece.

r1 call me weird.

I readily understand how Cage's performance can put any sane person off, but, I LOVE Cage in this.

His bad acting, overwrought, hammy, stupid presence adds to my enjoyment of "PSGM". To me, it's so weird, it's good.

Francis is EXTREMELY good at directing relatives!

True Fact!!

It’s a great film and I enjoy Cage’s performance. It’s Sofia Coppola’s acting that is distractingly bad.

I cry every time she sees her grandparents.

R5, I think those were her parents. How Kathleen Turner said "mom?" when she heard her voice again almost made me lose it in the theater. My mother had died a year before. I would have said it the same way.

^with a sexy rasp?

R5, you could be totally right, now that I think of it. The scene I mentioned was the only thing I remember about the movie. I don't even remember Cage being in it.

- R6

I'll take "Finian's Rainbow."

Love this movie. Have watched it dozens of times.

Nic Cage is the weak spot in, but I just view that as one of the film's quirks.

Kathleen Turner was amazing in it.

The scene at the end when she sees the locket and thinks about her kids. Her marriage to Charlie was hell but the pain was worth it.

OP, that is the most imbecilic thing I've ever heard.

R6

No, it was her grandparents. In that scene, Peggy's mother answers the phone, says "mom" to greet her own mother, and Peggy says "mom?" as in realizing the person on the line is her mother's mother.

It's fine. One of his better movies. My favorite of his from the 80s is Rumble Fish.

Agreed that conversation with her Grandma alway get me

I also love when she grabs the box and asks her sister if she wanted to play a game.

I’m a fan too. It’s his most able to rewatch film.

Love this damn movie. I always stop when I find it on tv and finish it.

Her loud My Country Tis of Thee always cracks me up.

The Nicolas Cage ham-acting became a big inside joke between me and my siblings when we were growing up ("She thought the...Big Bopper was a...HAMBURGER!").

Agree when she picks up the phone and hears "Peggy? It's Grandma!" I bawl my fucking eyes out every time.

Nicholas Cage's finest performance was in "Raising Arizona" it was also Holly Hunter's best.

Francis Ford Coppola's best films were Godfather I&II.

OP It's very enjoyable but face it, The Godfather is his masterpiece.

It's no "Apocalypse Now."

My mom likes this movie

Nicholas Cage’s performance was risky but I loved it. I’m glad Debra Winger dropped out because Turner was magnificent. And loved Barbara Harris and Don Murray as her parents.

It's no One From the Heart...

Kathleen Turner deserved the Oscar that year, wish she’d won instead of Marlee Matlin.

The supporting cast is excellent — in particular, it’s always a delight to see the inimitable Barbara Harris. And it was nice to see pretty Catherine Hicks, too. Interestingly, Hicks, hot off her great reviews in the Marilyn Monroe miniseries, had been offered the role of Matty Walker in “Body Heat”, but she was reluctant to play the sexually explicit role and turned it down. Later, Hicks graciously said she could never have played the role as well as Kathleen Turner (and she was probably right.)

Apparently this was just a job for Coppola unlike The Conversation or Apocalypse Now where he had a particular vision and was involved with the script. But he still does a magnificent job directing.

Kathleen Turner was wonderful in this movie. She remains my favourite actress of the '80s (sorry, Meryl). The scene with her grandmother gets me every time, too.

I love Nicholas Cage in this movie. His quirky energy works here as it did in Moonstruck.

I actually prefer this to Back to the Future. I think the grandmother scene is what does it for me.

Also, John Barry's score is beautiful. One of his most underrated scores.

Back to the Future is a movie made by people who lived movies.

Peggy Sue Got Married is a movie made by people who lived life.

[quote]The supporting cast is excellent — in particular, it’s always a delight to see the inimitable Barbara Harris

I saw it right after it opened and was shocked when I realized that her grandfather was being played by Leon Ames. I could have sworn I had read an obit for him several years earlier. He played Judy Garland's father in "Meet Me in St. Louis" in 1944. "Peggy Sue Got Married" was his final film.

R29 that's rather profound!

Agreed. It's brilliant.

The entire cast is intensely good.

Like others on here I love that movie. I have rewatched it many times over the years. Despite despising Nicholas Cage in that movie. He was truly awful. Thankfully all of the others in that movie did such a good job he was somewhat canceled out. He could have easily tanked it. Thank nasally congested voice.

Nick Cage is a turd when he thinks he's done great actor

Did Sissy Spacek deserve to win the golden globe for "Crimes Of The Heart" over Kathleen?

The character I cannot stand in PSGM is Peggy's daughter, played by Helen Hunt. Man, is that kid a bitch.

If Helen's performance is what Coppola wanted, she nailed it.

She should have been sent to her room for the way she spoke to Peggy, when getting ready for the reunion. She was completely self-centered.

R30 That was not Leon Ames. It was John Carradine and yes, it was his final film, released posthumously.

Nicolas Cage greatly tarnished Peggy Sue for me.

oh...go stuff your bra!

“I thought chicks like you ran in packs.”

-Michael Fitzsimmons (Kevin J. O’Connor) to Peggy Sue

Never has budding Frau ever been so succinctly, accurately defined.

[quote]That was not Leon Ames. It was John Carradine and yes, it was his final film, released posthumously.

Sorry, but R30 is correct. Leon Ames does indeed play the grandfather. John Carradine plays the leader at the grandfather's lodge.

Peggy Sue should have had a much hotter love interest. Like Motorcycle Boy, for instance.