A teen (Michael J. Fox) takes a crackpot's (Christopher Lloyd) DeLorean time machine to 1955 and sees his... (Learn more)
Starring: Michael J. Fox, Christopher Lloyd, Crispin Glover (View All)
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Starring: Michael J. Fox, Christopher Lloyd, Crispin Glover
Contemporary high schooler Marty McFly (Michael J. Fox) doesn't have the most pleasant of lives. Browbeaten by his principal at school, Marty must also endure the acrimonious relationship between his nerdy father (Crispin Glover) and his lovely mother (Lea Thompson), who in turn suffer the bullying of middle-aged jerk Biff (Thomas F. Wilson), Marty's dad's supervisor. The one balm in Marty's life is his friendship with eccentric scientist Doc (Christopher Lloyd), who at present is working on a time machine. Accidentally zapped back into the 1950s, Marty inadvertently interferes with the budding romance of his now-teenaged parents. Our hero must now reunite his parents-to-be, lest he cease to exist in the 1980s. It won't be easy, especially with the loutish Biff, now also a teenager, complicating matters. Beyond its dazzling special effects, the best element of Back to the Future is the performance of Michael J. Fox, who finds himself in the quagmire of surviving the white-bread 1950s with a hip 1980s mindset. Back to the Future cemented the box-office bankability of both Fox and the film's director, Robert Zemeckis, who went on to helm two equally exhilarating sequels. ~ Hal Erickson, All Movie Guide
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US Release Date
7/3/85
MPAA Rating
Rated PG
Running Time
116 mins.
Language
- English
Box Office Total
$200,785,744
Awards
- Nominated for a Best Original Screenplay award at the 1985 Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Scie Awards.
- Winner of the Best Sound Effects award at the 1985 Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Scie Awards.
- Winner of the Best Picture award at the 1985 People's Choice Awards [Festival/Award Awards.
- Nominated for a Best Sound award at the 1985 Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Scie Awards.
- Nominated for a Best Picture award at the 1985 British Academy of Film and Television Awards.
- Nominated for a Best Song award at the 1985 Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Scie Awards.
- Nominated for a Best Picture award at the 1985 National Board of Review [Festival/Awa Awards.
Distributor
- MCA Home Video
- Universal Pictures
