Peggy Sue was one of the most popular girls in high school, enjoying life with her friends and her boyfriend Charlie. It was the typical high school dream, until she finds herself married to Charlie and becomming a young mother. However, her life takes a serious turn, leaving her depressed and facing divorce when Charlie runs off with another woman. At her high school reunion, Peggy Sue faints and wakes up back in high school. Despite her confusion about what has happened and how to get back to her own time, Peggy realizes that she has a chance to start her life over, to avoid her depression and her marriage to Charlie. However, just because she knows the future, does that mean she can really avoid it?

Charlie (Nicolas Cage) begs Peggy to marry him, saying he doesn't know what the future might bring; he might lose his arm, even. In Cage's next role (Moonstruck (1987), he played a baker who has lost his hand.

Michael Fitzsimmons:
So are you going to marry Mr. Blue Impala and graze around with all the other sheep for the rest of your life?


Peggy Sue:
No... I already did that.

Continuity: The jar of M&Ms behind Peggy Sue when she is in the kitchen with her daughter.

Performed by Buddy Holly
Courtesy of MCA Records