I liked this movie when it came out and I still enjoy it now. It does a great job of imparting the “good times” feeling of life during the 1950’s. Francis Ford Coppola is the director and it has many actors who were “new” in Hollywood but are famous now including Kathleen Turner, Nicholas Cage, Jim Carry, Don Murray, Barry Miller, Joan Allen, and Kevin J. O’Connor. Old Hollywood actors include Maureen O’Sullivan and others.
The movie features a middle age women (Kathleen Turner) who passes out and wakes up in high school circa 1960. She picks up her life like she had never left. However this time round she’s having second thoughts about everything. She has the ability to change her life, but does she really want to?
There is a lot here that is just for fun only. Saying the pledge of allegiance at the onset of the school day, seeing all the 1950’s cars, the 50’s music, phones attached to the wall, her sister in a scout uniform, and seeing their 50’s style TV, what a hoot! She states that she wants to “go to Liverpool and discover the beetles! She tells off her algebra teacher, gets to spend time with her parents while they are still young and meets her now deceased grandparents.
On the down side the actors look pretty much the same in both 1960 and 1985. I wish that they had done a better job of “aging” them to fit the timeline. And Nicholas Cage seemed a little strange to me the first time that I saw the movie but not so much now.
Though not a top of the line movie it does have a top director and many well known actors. Overall this a very fun, enjoyable movie. It makes you think, what if? I have watched it a few times and would watch it again. And as an added bonus now that this movie is 35 years old it takes on new meaning as the 1980’s culture is now defunct as was the 1950’s culture when it was produced.
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