Review of Peggy Sue Got Married (1986) by Paul Attanasio for Washington Post — 12 May 1996

Not since the heyday of Frank Capra, perhaps, has there been a movie that so seamlessly combines screwball comedy with get-out-your-handkerchiefs heart. Peggy Sue Got Married isn't about solving life's problems, it's about accepting them, in a world where love doesn't conquer all, but conquers enough.

And in the hands of director Francis Coppola, that message makes what could have been merely a delightful lark about time travel into something much more.