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Back to the Future

The 1985 science-fiction comedy directed by Robert Zemeckis and starring Michael J. Fox.

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Its a wonder I was even born at all !

Feb 26, 2002

by AdamHunnicutt

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Michael J. Fox, Christopher Lloyd, Lea Thompson, time travel and an ingenious story. What more could you want. All of these terrific actors disappear melting into their original characters. When you think of Michael J. Fox, you may think of Spin City, but more likely than not the name Marty McFly enters your mind. Christopher Lloyd has done many characters in several movies, but none compare to his perfect portrayal of Doc Emmit Brown. Lea Thompson's post Caroline in the City role had me wondering when I was a child whether it was possible that she was playing both young and old versions of Marty's mom. In fact, I had an argument with my own mother about it. "No way!" I said. Now that Im older I know better, but it just seems that a more perfect cast has never been assembled.

Robert Zemeckis has crafted a fine story envolving a paradox and simplicity. Guess what? The Trilogy is coming to DVD in December! I can't wait to add them to my collection. I'm sure you can't either!

Back to the Future is a movie so close to so many heart's that it will forever remain a classic, whether or not it makes A.F.I.'s top one hundred list. I consider it to be one of the funniest and incredible movie's ever made. What would you do if you could take a trip into the past?

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Quick Tip by gaelkm. May 11, 2012

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This is a great, fun family classic movie...three of them to the series.

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review by Captain_Couth. May 15, 2009

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Back to the Future is the film that launched Michael J. Fox's career into the stratosphere. This film not only made him into an eighties superstar but it also made Back to the Future a part of Americana and a slight fixture upon Hollywood for a few years there after. This film was so successful that it was made into a trilogy. The film follows a high school student Marty Mc Fly (Michael J. Fox) who's not pleased with the way his life has been going. He always feels that there's … more

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review by shoyu1. May 15, 2009

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Here we are, it's 1985 and we're being introduced to Marty McFly (Michael J. Fox) and his inventor friend Dr. Emmett Brown (Christopher Lloyd) not sure how these two became friends, but there you go. Anyway, Dr. Brown is famous (rather infamous) for his crackpot ideas - The auto dog feeder, clocks that are exactly twenty five minutes slow, and so on... Until he invents the flux capacitor - it's what makes time travel possible. So, after making a deal with some terrorists to acquire plutonium, we … more

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review by MichaelN. May 13, 2009

The Best Time Travel Movie Ever!

This movie was made in the mid 1980's and is still just as fresh today as when it was first released. My young children who weren't even born till more than 10 years after this movie came out, like to watch it over and over again. Last year we were in Universal Studios Orlando and they were so excited to see the Delorian on display outside the Back to the Future Ride. And everyone seems to remember the flux capacitor! Christopher Llloyd and Michael J. Fox give the performances of their career. A … more

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review by tomtom13. April 24, 2007

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"My Density Has Brought Me To You."

Even though Robert Zemeckis was a filmmaker that Steven Spielberg liked and wanted to succeed, in the early 1980s, Zemeckis was on the verge of watching his film directing career come to a crashing end. Zemeckis had several films under his belt, but all of them had been flops at the box office and had received mostly negative critical reviews. In the early 1980s Zemeckis was probably best known as one of the co-writers of 1941, the only critically-panned film of Spielberg's early film career. Things … more

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review by MichaelN. November 12, 2003

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The Best Time Travel Film Ever!

This movie was made in the mid 1980's and is still just as fresh today as when it was first released. My young children who weren't even born till more than 10 years after this movie came out, like to watch it over and over again. Last year we were in Universal Studios Orlando and they were so excited to see the Delorian on display outside the Back to the Future Ride. And everyone seems to remember the flux capacitor!Christopher Llloyd and Michael J. Fox give the performances of their career. A … more

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Filmmaker Robert Zemeckis topped his breakaway hit Romancing the Stone with this joyous comedy with a dazzling hook: what would it be like to meet your parents in their youth? Billed as a special-effects comedy, the imaginative film (the top box-office smash of 1985) has staying power because of the heart behind Zemeckis and Bob Gale's script. High schooler Marty McFly (Michael J. Fox, during the height of his TV success) is catapulted back to the '50s where he sees his parents in their teens, and accidentally changes the history of how Mom and Dad met. Filled with the humorous ideology of the '50s, filtered through the knowledge of the '80s (actor Ronald Reagan is president, ha!), the film comes off as a Twilight Zone episode written by Preston Sturges. Filled with memorable effects and two wonderfully off-key, perfectly cast performances: Christopher Lloyd as the crazy scientist who builds the time machine (a DeLorean luxury car) and Crispin Glover as Marty's geeky dad. Followed by two sequels. --Doug Thomas

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Cast: George "Buck" Flower, Elsa Raven, Christopher Lloyd, Boyd "Red" Morgan, Jamie Abbott, James Tolkan, Lisa Freeman, Michael J. Fox, Crispin Glover, Lea Thompson, Wendie Jo Sperber, Claudia Wells, Thomas F. Wilson, Thomas J. Wilson, Marc McClure, George DiCenzo, Frances Lee McCain, Jason Marin, Paul Hansen, Will Hare, Deborah Harmon, Huey Lewis and the News, Cristen Kauffman, Robert Krantz, Donald Fullilove, Courtney Gains, Norman Alden, Ivy Bethune, Maia Brewton, J.J. Cohen, Jeffrey Jay Cohen, Read Morgan, Jeff O'Haco, Sachi Parker, Gary Riley, Casey Siemaszko, Harry Waters, Jr., Billy Zane, Katherine Britton, David Harold Brown, Lee Brownfield, Robert de Lapp, Richard L. Duran, Jason Hervey, Karen Petrasek, Tommy Thomas, Lloyd L. Tolbert, Granville "Danny" Young, Lee McCain, Johnny Green, Elizabeth Chambers

Director: Robert Zemeckis

Genre: Sci-Fi, Fantasy

Release Date: July 3, 1985

MPAA Rating: PG

Screen Writer: Bob Gale

Runtime: 1hr 56min

Studio: Universal Studios

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