Revealing mistake: In the opening scene the camera pulls back from a bedside locker to an over the shoulder shot of Kathleen Turner doing her make up in the mirror. Close inspection shows that the shoulder in the foreground is actually that of a double who doesn't quite match Turner's movements.
Peggy Sue Got Married (1986)
Ending / spoiler
Directed by: Francis Ford Coppola
Starring: Nicolas Cage, Kathleen Turner, Catherine Hicks, Barry Miller
Peggy sleeps with the guy she "regreted never sleeping with" Michael Fitzsimmons. Charlie finds out and they break up. Peggy sees Charlie singing in a night club and realizes he is a talented singer and sees him in a different light. Peggy tells Richard Norvik all about future technology. Peggy tells her grandparents about her reunion while she visits them. They believe her story and agree to help her by taking her to her grandfather's lodge. The lodge members perform a ritual on Peggy, and the lights go out. Peggy is gone so they assume the ritual has worked.But really in the meantime Charlie has kidnapped Peggy. He proclaims his love for and gives her a locket. They make love which leads you to believe how they got pregnant and married in the first place. Peggy wakes up in a hospital back to the present time and Charlie is there and tells her he still loves her. Now, you are to assume it was only a dream, but Charlie shows Peggy a book written by Michael Fitzsimmons dedicated to her. Hmmm?
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More mistakes in Peggy Sue Got Married
Peggy Sue: We had one glorious night together, someday you'll remember and write about it.
Michael Fitzsimmons: Yeah, I can dig that. Bittersweet perfection. Dogs of lust on leashes of memory.
Trivia: Debra Winger was originally offered the role of Peggy Sue, but had to pull out after suffering a back injury in a bicycle accident.
Question: I never understood the significance of the girl in the wheelchair at the reunion. Peggy Sue makes a big deal out of the girl but never in her "flashback" do we see this character.
Answer: You DO see Rosalie in the past. She hosts the party at which Charlie and his group sing. And Jim Carrey asks for the lights to be turned out. She walks, and begins to dance with her boyfriend.
No, that was Maddie's party. Peggy Sue's mom said so when she asked her why she wasn't ready for the party, when Charlie came to pick her up.
I finally see her, thanks! She's to the left of Peggy Sue and her girlfriends as they watch Charlie and the guys sing. Then she's the girl dancing on the counter at the coffee shop when Peggy Sue meets with Michael Fitzsimmons the first time. I always wondered about the Rosalie plot hole.
I think we DO see Rosalie before her accident-she is the girl dancing on the counter at the coffee shop when Peggy Sue goes for coffee and a donut and runs into Michael Fitzsimmons. Peggy Sue pauses and watches her for a moment.
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Chosen answer: In the original script, Rosalie (the girl in the wheelchair) injures herself in an accident. Peggy Sue tries to change things that happen in the future, including Rosalie's accident.
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