Product: Peggy Sue Got Married [VHS] (1986)
Rating: 3.0
Back to the Future meets Middle Age Angst.
Actually, this film is not a bad effort. Kathleen Turner was in good form, and was supported by a group of talented actors, with the surprising exception of Nicholas Cage. His role as Turners boyfriend/husband was grating and ineffectual. His character is supposed to be a frustrated young man aspiring to be a rock star(boyfriend), and a middle aged crazy philandering furniture salesman (husband). However, Cage presents both past and future versions as an egocentric dweeb with a particularly annoying nasal voice. In the real world of high school, or anywhere else, a woman like Kathleen Turner would have told the arrogant twit to take a hike (and hire a voice coach) with nary a second glance.Aside from this one (albeit major) casting error, the film is enjoyable. The twist of having the heroine (Turner) sent back in time, apparently to change an unpleasant future, and then find that she is unable to despite her knowledge of what is to come is novel. A trifling annoyance is the willingness of several characters to quite matter of factly accept her claims of time travel (hardly a common occurrence in 1960), which does stretch the believablilty factor a bit. But hey, this is a romantic fantasy.A nice Saturday night popcorn and chick flick type of movie. 3 stars out of 5, mainly due to Nicholas Cage's abysmal performance.