How awesome it would be to go back and re live some things... High school, the first time you drove, spending time with your grandparents, your first dance... Great memories...
This was one of the best movies of all time, I think. Each time I watch this movie, I always get something new from it. I was 7 when this movie first came out, and even as a child, this movie moved me then. That's something...to reach a 7 year old child. Amazing movie.
the theme song when Peggy Sue returns home absolutely slays me/...I can so imagine myself feeling like that....revisiting the past with new eyes....ahhhh....Barry who wrote the score is a genius...the acting was superb...and everyone secretly can identify with that DESIRE to return to those early years..I cry every time i see this movie...
I have always loved this movie. I can't explain it but the music mixed with the scene when she's at her grandparents house really makes me sad. I have this feeling of deep emotion. I can't explain it
Kathleen Turner didn't get the credit she deserved here. She brilliantly played a middle aged mother and a teenager in the same movie without hardly any effort at all. Not too many actresses around today could pull that off.
The scene with her grandparents is especially well done and extraordinarily moving. You get the impression that they believe her...that they are aware that this is a special moment captured, borne of love.
I don't know what it is ... but I have to catch my breath a little every time she tells her gram "I named my daughter after you,' and gram reacts so lovingly with an "ah." That's Tarzan's wife, by the way...quite the looker in her day.
Leon Ames played Peggy Sue's grandfather. He had an incredibly long and fruitful career and worked almost until the end of his life. I remember him playing Judy Garland's father in "Meet me in St. Louis".
You put together a really nice collection of scenes and perfectly captured a sense of what this movie was about. Thank you. This is one of my favorite movies and I really enjoyed watching this.
Beautiful damn movie. Nick's best performance by far! Didn't even know who he was yet. It's sad that Francis never got the credit he deserved for this movie.
@@Jmcsj02 I was a teen when I saw this and I still loved it because I loved the concept of “seeing how your life would turn out,” and I have ALWAYS been fascinated with class reunions, for whatever reason. (Also I had a bad school experience in terms of being unpopular and sometimes bullied so, you know I loved how the nerds were often successful)
The scenes with her Grandfather hit home because I remembered him from Mr. Ed when I was little and I had no idea he was still alive in '86 when I saw this film. This movie does have that nostalgia thing where boomers watch it and relate to stuff from their own pasts.
I adore this movie too.Yes,the scene with her grandparents is beyond awesome. I also love the scene where Peggy opens her locket which have her childrens photos in it and Charlie asks who are they? And Peggy says something like they're us. It's so beautiful.From the story,the acting,the music-all of it.
john barry is amazing!!!! Can anyone post the part in this movie when the girls get in the car an the song tequila is on the radio?? It´s trippy with all the houses in pastel colours!!!
Many people have this dream that if we could just go back in time to High School and change everything, that life would be so much better today! You can't change the past it's already gone! You have to live in the moment and plan for the future! It is great remembering the things you did in the past but you can't live there! I was four years old in 1960 and the theme to "A Summers Place" reminds what a great year it was! John F. Kennedy was just elected as President of the United States!
Love this movie. Though it could be about time travel and making different decisions knowing what will happen in the future, it's also about nostalgia and 2nd chances. In the end, when she invites him for dinner and opens up the possibility of a reconciliation, it was sign of changing what was. Love was love and forgiveness.
I love the part when she shows her locket with her childrens photo in them to Charlie and he says who are they and she says Scott and Beth..they're us. Beautiful scene...
I would've liked to have seen the scene when Peggy Sue first see's her mother and baby sister, it was a very engaging and emotional set of scenes. Her mother being dead, and her sister being in a wheel chair in the future. :(
My grandmother was my best friend. When she died I was never the same. I miss her so much. I was 16 when she died. I’m 48 now. Still as hard now as it was 32 years ago.
Something that has always puzzled me about this film is that Charlie and Peggy Sue have a son called Scott, who is mentioned throughout, and the actor playing the part gets a name check in the closing titles, but if he's ever seen, it's a blink and you miss it moment. This was also a showcase for future talent, with excellent turns from Helen Hunt and Joan Allen, a restrained performance from Jim Carrey, and Nicolas Cage overacting.
That's why in the end why she could not change the past because she is after all proud of her children. I know I am too and wouldn't change them for anyone.
things Peggy Sue and I have in common as I hate Twinkies too I don't like the after bite taste, we both like to just get drunk in stressful situations and hopelessly devoted to the same guy lol.😊
He’s on to something at 254 when he says time is like a burrito that it folds over and just touch’s a part of itself. Notice how seasonal changes occur, spring is still cold and fall is still hot even in places that get four seasons evened out like Oklahoma etc. time only exists with ourselves, and our animals, everything else changes but doesn’t cease to exist. So time travel might be possible but we would still age, because even if we could travel to the nearest star at the speed of light, earth might change but we would still get old.
@@BAKER22-l4u Well I believe time hasn’t always even existed, some events in the past set time off. Some people believe the actions of Adam and Eve in the Garden of Eden caused time to start the aging process by them eating a forbidden fruit, probably some thing that causes death. I’m in the process of writing a science fiction story called the Racehorse Syndrome where a Jewish kid that’s a jockey becomes involved in the biology of horses and discovers a way to slow down the aging process in horses, after he transfers to Oklahoma to train quarter horses he meets this Indian lady that’s also a jockey and she introduces him to the medicinal plants her great grandfather discovered that slows the aging process down in people. She used the last of the plant combination before her tribe was wiped out by the us army, and though she looks 15 years old she’s actually 95. Oh it kicks off major excitement all over the country.
Well not in California or Texas that had a lot of Latino people, but back east they still can’t make real good Mexican food. I was born in 1950, and it really was a magical time and I believe that Peggy wanted to go back there because it was a great time in her life, older people live a lot with their memories that that kid said you could fill a burrito with.
