10 Best Movies Named After Popular Songs

These days better known for making wine and badmouthing Marvel movies, there was a time when Francis Ford Coppola was a film director, and a pretty good one at that. While not quite producing classic-after-classic as in his 1970s peak, 80s Coppola was still worth a look.

Unlike some other examples on this list, the eponymous 1959 Buddy Holly song was built into the concept of Peggy Sue Got Married from the start, in fact since long before Coppola himself got involved. The script, from husband and wife duo Jerry Leichtling and Arlene Sarner, was, after all, about a woman named Peggy Sue who got married to her high school sweetheart and now regrets it.

Beyond the fact that it's about a Peggy Sue who got married, Peggy Sue Got Married the movie doesn't have a lot of narrative connection to the song of the same name. The sounds of rock 'n' roll on the cusp of the 1960s, however, are perfectly evocative for its nostalgic fantasy of an unsatisfied 80s woman thrown back in time to her 1960 high school self.

Coppola, who only took on the film after Jonathan Demme and Penny Marshall dropped out, is on unfamiliar ground in directing a female-led nostalgic fantasy comedy, but he delivers the required rock 'n' roll nostalgia, a charming lead performance from an Oscar-nominated Kathleen Turner, and a suitably oddball role for his nephew Nic Cage as her wannabe singer boyfriend.