Back to the Future
| Back to the Future | |
|---|---|
| Directed by | Robert Zemeckis |
| Written by | Robert Zemeckis Bob Gale |
| Produced by | Bob Gale Neil Canton |
| Starring | Michael J. Fox Christopher Lloyd Lea Thompson Crispin Glover |
| Cinematography | Dean Cundey |
| Edited by | Arthur Schmidt Harry Keramidas |
| Music by | Alan Silvestri |
Production companies | |
| Distributed by | Universal Pictures |
Release date | July 3, 1985 |
Running time | 116 minutes |
| Country | United States |
| Language | English |
| Budget | $19 million |
| Box office | $388.8 million |
Back to the Future is a 1985 American science fiction adventure movie directed by Robert Zemeckis and written by Bob Gale. It stars Michael J. Fox, Christopher Lloyd and Crispin Glover. It is the first movie for the Back to the Future trilogy.
Plot
[change | change source]In 1985, Doc Emmett Brown shows teenage Marty his new creation: a car which can travel through time. The heart of the time machine is "the flux capacitor," invented by Dr. Brown. The time machine needs plutonium to provide the power for the flux capacitor. Marty uses the car to escape from Islamic terrorists and accidentally goes back to the year 1955. Marty seeks out and meets Dr. Brown in 1955. The time machine is out of plutonium, and there is no plutonium available for the time machine in 1955. By chance, Marty knows the time and place of a one-time natural event (lightning strike) that can provide the power to transport the time machine and Marty back to 1985.
The situation in 1955 is complicated when Marty meets his own parents as teenagers. When he helps his father, he accidentally changes the events that lead to his parents becoming a couple. Marty's teenage mother becomes interested in Marty instead of Marty's father, George. With the help of the Doc of 1955, Marty tries to undo the damage he has done, and make his mother fall in love with his father. If he can get his parents back together, he has very little time to get back to the car to use the lightning strike to take the time machine and him (Marty) back to the future (i.e. 1985).
Cast
[change | change source]- Michael J. Fox as Marty McFly
- Christopher Lloyd as Dr. Emmett "Doc" Brown
- Lea Thompson as Lorraine Baines-McFly
- Crispin Glover as George McFly
- Thomas F. Wilson as Biff Tannen
- Claudia Wells as Jennifer Parker
- James Tolkan as Mr. Strickland
- Marc McClure as Dave McFly
- Wendie Jo Sperber as Linda McFly