Back to the Future
Back to the Future
“ He was never in time for his classes... He wasn't in time for his dinner... Then one day... he wasn't in his time at all. ”
CINEMA1985-07-03
DIGITAL2015-10-20
RegionUS
Runtime116 MIN
Media TypeMovie
PRODUCTION COMPANIES
Storyline
Eighties teenager Marty McFly is accidentally sent back in time to 1955, inadvertently disrupting his parents' first meeting and attracting his mother's romantic interest. Marty must repair the damage to history by rekindling his parents' romance and - with the help of his eccentric inventor friend Doc Brown - return to 1985.
DIRECTOR / Director
Robert Zemeckis
KEYWORDS
flying carrace against timeclock towercar racelightningguitarinventorjourney in the pastinventiontime travelbullyingmad scientistlovefish out of waterterrorismteenage lovedestinyburlesquehidden identityteenage lifechanging the past or future1950slightheartedhilariousexcitedoptimistic
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An American science fiction–comedy film series that follows the adventures of a high school student, Marty McFly and an eccentric scientist, Dr Emmett L. Brown as they use a DeLorean time machine to time travel to different periods in the history of Hill Valley, California.
