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Peggy Sue Got Married
In production around the same time as Robert Zemeckis's time-travel blockbuster Back to the Future, this bittersweet comedy was originally to star Debra Winger before Kathleen Turner got the nod and turned in an Oscar-nominated performance. It's no surprise that Francis Ford Coppola wasn't the first choice director, as this is hardly his sort of territory. He overplays the Capra card and spends too much time analysing Peggy Sue's responses to revisiting her youth, rather than letting us make up our own minds. Turner is sublime, beautifully re-creating the traits of teenagehood, while Nicolas Cage (whose performance was originally slated in many quarters) is amazing as the boy she knows will grow up into a slob.
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