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Peggy Sue Bodell married Charlie, her high school sweetheart, right after graduation, when she was pregnant. By 1985, the marriage has gone stale: there are money troubles and Charlie's infidelity, and the two have separated. Peggy Sue attends her 25th high school reunion with her daughter, Beth, and there she is reunited with her old friends Maddy and Carol. When Richard Norvik, the class geek turned billionaire inventor, is crowned reunion king, Peggy Sue is named queen. She faints onstage and wakes in 1960, her senior year, where she breaks up with Charlie and turns to Richard for an explanation of what has happened to her.
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Did you know?!Facts and trivia about Peggy Sue Got Married (1986)
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- In 2008 Nicolas Cage sued Kathleen Turner for defamation over her claims that he had driven drunk and stolen a chihuahua, and won. He received a public apology from Turner, an admission from her publisher that the claims were false and defamatory, and a pledge of a substantial donation to charity.
- The film was originally going to star Debra Winger and be directed by Jonathan Demme. They had creative differences and Demme left, replaced by Penny Marshall, who would have been making her feature directorial debut. Marshall then had creative differences with the writers and left, and Winger quit out of loyalty to her.
- Nicolas Cage has said he never wanted to play the role, but was asked multiple times by Coppola; he only agreed to take the part if he could play it in an over-the-top manner.
- Coppola was under a contractual deadline to deliver the finished film on time or forfeit his right to final cut, so according to Kathleen Turner the cast and crew worked twenty-hour days, six days a week, to make the delivery date.
- Kathleen Turner criticized Nicolas Cage for his decision to wear false teeth and to adopt a nasal fry for his character. Cage said he had based the voice on Pokey from The Gumby Show.
- Leichtling and Sarner adapted the film into a full-length musical theater production that opened in London's West End theater district in 2001. Despite receiving solid reviews and a several million pound advance, the September 11 attacks forced the show to close early.
- The film gave Coppola his first box-office success in three years, since The Outsiders in 1983, after grossing $41.4 million in the United States.
