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Peggy Sue Got Married (1986) More at IMDbPro »

• 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.
  
  
• The blue 1958 Chevrolet Impala convertible that Nicolas Cage drives was later given away in a sweepstakes tied in with the opening of the film.
  
  
• In the original script, Rosalie, the woman in the wheelchair at Peggy Sue's high school reunion, was a gymnast who was crippled in an accident. In the original script, Peggy Sue tried to take advantage of her knowledge of the future. She invented pantyhose, encouraged people to invest in Xerox, and tried to prevent Rosalie from hurting herself.
  
  
• Debra Winger was offered the role of Peggy Sue.
  
  
• When Peggy Sue's friends take her home after she faints at the blood drive, the car radio plays "Tequila". The radio station is KFRC San Francisco, which altered its live programming for the movie.
  
  
• While "visiting" 1960, Peggy Sue warns her sister about eating red M&Ms. Red M&Ms were discontinued in 1976, when Red #2 dye was found to cause cancer. They were reintroduced in 1986, soon after the film was released, with a different red dye.
  
  
• Sofia Coppola (the director's daughter) plays Peggy Sue's little sister. Sofia Coppola would later direct Kathleen Turner in The Virgin Suicides (1999).
  
  
• Nicolas Cage based his character's voice on Pokey of "The Gumby Show" (1957). Francis Ford Coppola and the producers hated the voice and Cage was nearly fired. But Cage managed to convince Coppola he was making a good choice.
  
  
• Helen Hunt, who plays Peggy Sue and Charlie's daughter, is nine years younger than her mother (Kathleen Turner) and a year older than her father (Nicolas Cage).
  
  
• The last film for Leon Ames.
  
  

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