Hardly anyone knows this wonderful film, do they? I've seen it twice, it put me in such a good mood! Just the thing for our "Corona Cinema" in these gloomy days. And for all those who want to see a real secret tip from the 80s!
There are places in Berlin that make me feel seventeen again! There are such places or moments where the feeling of being a teenager again is especially strong! You linger and know exactly how you felt back then. For example, when you get a message from a girl you were in love with at seventeen. By the way, these people always remain the teenager in your memory. They never grow up. A good trick of nature! That's exactly how Francis Ford Coppolas Peggy Sue Got Married works. Like an all too human comedy, a nostalgic memory, a love story - and last but not least a typical 80s Time Travel adventure. A kind of "Back To The Future" for adults. Peggy (Kathleen Turner) faints at her 25th high school reunion. The joke here: She goes to this meeting in 1960 in her own teenage body. You remember; in "Back To The Future" the hero travels back in time to meet his parents. Peggy travels back to get inside her own body. She enters her teen body at 42 with the mind of an adult. What would you say today to the girl you loved then? And what would you say when you hear your grandmother's voice on the phone? And you knew she was about to die? These are the moments that Coppola's film offers us on the meter. Suddenly all the old people are alive again. That's the stuff of Coppola's comedy: Fabricated from the drama of human emotions. What a predicament! In the front seat of the car, the teenager Peggy is going to marry (and then divorce). She knows all this and still falls around his neck. I would think people change. The greatest thing about it: Turner, at that time about 30, plays the 17-year-old, just like the 42-year-old. Like a small miracle! As a teenager she talks wildly, not waiting for the answers of the others. And she walks like a teenager. Turner has observed so well how teenagers talk and move that she doesn't even need an elaborate mask. Charlie Bodell (Nicolas Cage) is the name of her boyfriend and future husband. We get to know him as a 40-year-old businessman, shortly afterwards as a teenager. More than once Peggy shocks him. Because she talks like a man, thinks Charlie in 1960. It's called emancipation and that didn't exist in 1960. And Francis Ford Coppola? He did everything humanly possible in the early '80s to produce big experimental films. Until financial ruin, because in 1980 Coppola was forced to sell his Zoetrope Studios. He had risked and lost all the money he had earned during the 70s. With Peggy Sue Got Married he obviously just wanted to create some really original characters and tell a very intelligent story. He succeeded in all of this! For me Peggy Sue Got Married is THE discovery from the 80s! To see again and again!
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