Reviews

A woman (PEGGY SUE) whose husband just left her for some younger woman, goes to her high school reunion, faints, but ends up 25 years earlier in time with friend, family, and her philandering husband as high school boyfriend-in 1960 high school! Should she break up with her teen boyfriend-and change her future? Should she run off with the mysterious beatnik poet??? Or,

should she just stay in 1960 and discover the Beatles early, invent pantyhose, and make lots of money?

I LOVED watching this movie because I remember 1960 as a little kid. My BABYSITTERS (and their boyfriends)---some older cousins, some younger aunts/ uncles - talked and acted like these 1960 pre Beatles and early Rock & Roll teens in PEGGY SUE GOT MARRIED.

Who does Peggy Sue see in 1960???

The girls in ponytails, shirtwaist dresses, plaid "pedalpusher" shorts (not recommended for women with a larger "mom butt" but cute on teens), transistor radios, big plastic pointy cornered eyeglasses...the boys with ducktail haircuts, white sox and penny loafers - her own YOUNGER looking parents, her currently ESTRANGED husband as her teen adoring boyfriend...and...

• the long dead but still loved - GRANDPARENTS whom Peggy Sue will go to for help in leaving 1960- so Peggy Sue can return to to her future, her kids and - her repentant HUSBAND.

************** Buddy Holly, an early Rock and Roll teen idol, wrote and performed the title song "Peggy Sue" back in 1960. A fun nostalgic film.

Turner's character has that bit of mature woman's lite cynicism which keeps this film from getting sentimental

EXCEPT where she is comforted by her grandparents. There she doesn't act as a teen, but is the middle aged woman asking her long dead (but still loved) grandparents for advice!

A kind of women's Back to the Future but with no DeLorean needed.

It's worth watching this GREAT LIE because The Fountainhead book and this movie (like the book and possibly the new movie (???) Atlas Shrugged) ...trots out Ayn Rand's selfish capitalism to the NTH degree but with a great cast and with quality black and white photography.

The GREAT LIE is that GARY COOPER's "hero" persona makes his CRIME look justified. Also, Raymond Massey - sometimes the villain sometimes a hero of this story - brings his handsome ugly face (strongly resembling Lincoln whom he played earlier) and all the "hero" connotations to his equally selfish character. Selfishness masquerading as HEROISM.

Now Russia has truly selfish capitalists. The Russian Mob. No one is accusing them of the Ayn Rand invented sin of serving others...!

They are the PUREST followers of the Ayn Rand mode of "Lie Selfish --- or die".