How does she play a 17-year-old? Not by trying to actually look 17, because the movie doesn't try to pull off that stunt (the convention is that the heroine looks adult to us, but like a teenager to the other characters). The movie stars Kathleen Turner, in a performance that must be seen to be believed. Imagine kissing someone for the first time after you have already kissed him or her for the last time. There is a scene in the movie where the 17-year-old girl (with the mind of the 42-year-old woman) sits in the front seat of a car and necks with the teenage boy that (she knows) she will marry and someday decide to divorce. Frank Capra made comedies like this, in which the humor welled up out of a deep, even sentimental, drama of human emotions. It's like visiting a cemetery where all of the people are still alive.Īnd yet it is a comedy. What would you say, knowing what you know now, to the people you loved when you were 17? How would you feel if you picked up the telephone, and it was your grandmother's voice? Would you tell her she was going to die in another two years and three months? No, but you would know that, and wouldn't your heart leap into your throat? And wouldn't she wonder what was wrong with you, that you couldn't respond to her simple hello? 'Peggy Sue Got Married' provides moment after moment like that. In 'Peggy Sue,' the heroine travels backwards to enter her own body as a teenager - and she enters it with her 42-year-old mind still intact. In 'Back to the Future,' the hero traveled backwards through time to meet his own parents when they were teenagers.

Those few details make the movie sound like ' Back to the Future,' but give it some thought and you will see that 'Peggy Sue' is not a clone, but a mirror image.

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