The performances transcend the film's tropes, grounding it in characters that feel more complete than this subgenre often produces.

Blending excellent reporting and strong storytelling, this is a disturbing film truly stranger than fiction

As somebody who had not heard any of this before, it became a curious phenomenon to sit and watch a film and slowly have the realities begin to click into place.

Excellent and certainly provocative... If nothing else, the film is a real conversation starter.

The acting was so over-the-top that it totally distracted from the plot. Nicholas Cage's performance was at best forgettable. Whoever thought a period piece with over the top characters would make a good movie was terribly wrong. Too predictable, most of the actors came off just above a cartoon performance.

Peggy Sue Bodell attends her 25 year high school reunion, only to collapse and be transported back to 1960, her senior year. The more she wants to change things, the more she discovers that she makes the same choices as she did before, with a few adjustments. Although she starts by wishing she was a free spirit, and the desire to run away with the local bad boy, she discovers he wants to be a polygamist writer whose wives would take care of chickens for their income. This is at odds with her personal values and she realizes that she is not what she thought she was. There is more self-discovery in this movie than there is learning about those around her, but she does pick up some lessons from them along the way.A side note: I noticed on one review that I read someone was using the scene with Peggy's mother having her jewelry appraised to indicate that she was becoming an independent woman in the early days of the women's movement. I interpreted it that Peggy's parents were dealing with the same problem that led to Peggy and Charlie's problems, which she says herself - "house payments"! Her father owns a hat shop, a business which is surely on the decline at this time, foreshadowing family financial catastrophe in the years ahead. Did anyone else think this, or was there something else going on in your opinion?

Francis Ford Coppola has been one of my favorites. He has crafted a number of spectacular movies, but this is not one of them. Turner is dull in the lead performance and the story has nothing new to do or say. It does not even find a way to recycle the clichés. It ends up uncreative and dull. The supporting performances are just as bad, lots of campy acting. Never has a Coppola movie ever been so boring or so stale in its conveying of plot elements. It tries to be likable but ultimately falls flat on its face. do yourself a favor and watch any other Coppola movie- even Jack over this one. Sofia Coppola is just as miscast as she would later be in The Godfather: Part III.

This film is so well thought out and touching, it is one of my favorite films ever and I watch it any time I find it on TV. I am not one to watch things repeatedly so that says a lot. I think one of the things that makes it so special is the heartfelt acting by Kathleen Turner. Being able to go back and experience all the things you take for granted as a teen only from the mindset of an adult changes everything. Who among us hasn't wished we could do things differently? appreciate our parents when they were younger, spend more time with now lost loved ones, remember why we fell in love with the person we have been with so long we sometimes forget who they used to be? Remembering what it felt like, our innocence, our idealistic view of the world, all the dreams we had for ourselves and our future. So many parts are sentimental and make you tear up, and yet it still has just the right balance of comedy, seeing how silly we really were and how dumb so many things we worried about were when we were kids. Looking back, I realize there are so many things I would like to have done differently, I wonder if it would have changed anything, and Peggy Sue gets to do that. Imagine reliving your high school time with the wisdom and knowledge you have now. I think anyone over 30 can find plenty to relate to while watching this but I find that the older I get, the better this movie gets. This movie makes you think about how you lived your life and maybe, it will also make you think about how to live the rest of your life. I just love this movie on so many levels.