"Sound Editing). Seventeen-year-old Marty McFly is accidentally sent back in time from 1985 to 1955 in a time machine built from a DeLorean by eccentric scientist Emmett ""Doc"" Brown, when they are attacked by Libyans from whom Doc stole the plutonium that gives the flux capacitor the 1.21 gigawatts it needs to time-travel. Soon after his arrival in 1955, Marty's mother Lorraine falls in love with him, rather than with his father George McFly, threatening to cause a paradox that would result in Marty ceasing to exist. Without plutonium to power the time machine, Marty must find the 1955 Doc"
"Back to the Future Part II Back to the Future Part II is a 1989 American science fiction film directed by Robert Zemeckis and written by Bob Gale. It is the sequel to the 1985 film ""Back to the Future"" and the second installment in the ""Back to the Future"" trilogy. The film stars Michael J. Fox, Christopher Lloyd, Thomas F. Wilson, and Lea Thompson. In the plot, Marty McFly (Fox) and his friend Dr. Emmett ""Doc"" Brown (Lloyd) travel to 2015, where bully Biff Tannen (Wilson) steals Doc's DeLorean time machine and uses it to alter history for the"
"Back to the Future (franchise) The ""Back to the Future"" franchise is an American science fiction–adventure comedy film series written and directed by Robert Zemeckis, produced by Bob Gale and Neil Canton for Steven Spielberg's Amblin Entertainment, and distributed by Universal Pictures. The franchise follows the adventures of a high school student, Marty McFly (Michael J. Fox), and an eccentric scientist, Dr. Emmett L. Brown (Christopher Lloyd), as they use a DeLorean time machine to time travel to different periods in the history of Hill Valley, California. The first film was the highest-grossing film of 1985 and became an international"
"capacitor appears, manned by Doc, Clara, and their two children Jules and Verne. Doc gives Marty a photo of the two of them by the clockworks in 1885. Jennifer asks about the fax, and Doc tells them it means that the future has not yet been written. Doc departs and the train disappears into an unknown time. The origins of the western theme for ""Back to the Future Part III"" lie in the production of the original film. During filming for the original, director Zemeckis asked Michael J. Fox what time period he would like to see. Fox replied that"
"return to 1985, unaware of Biff's actions. The 1985 they return to has altered: Biff has become wealthy and corrupt, and has changed Hill Valley into a chaotic dystopia; Marty's father, George, was killed in 1973 and Biff has forced Marty's mother, Lorraine, to marry him; and Doc has been committed to an insane asylum. Marty and Doc determine that the 2015 Biff took the time machine to change 1985, and Marty learns from the alternate 1985 Biff that he got the almanac on November 12, 1955. Biff attempts to confront Marty, but Marty flees and returns to 1955 with"
"Back in Time (2015 film) Back in Time is a 2015 American documentary film directed by Jason Aron. The film explores the production, impact, and legacy of the ""Back to the Future"" film series, and includes interviews with members of the series' cast and crew, including Robert Zemeckis, Steven Spielberg, Michael J. Fox and Christopher Lloyd, as well as fans of the franchise. The film includes footage of various cast and crew members of the ""Back to the Future"" film series, discussing the trilogy and its cultural impact. Among these interviewees are actors Michael J. Fox, Christopher Lloyd, Lea Thompson,"
"together. Film studios rejected it until the financial success of Zemeckis' ""Romancing the Stone"". Zemeckis approached Steven Spielberg, who agreed to produce the project at Amblin Entertainment, with Universal Pictures as distributor. Fox was the first choice to play Marty, but he was busy filming his television series ""Family Ties"", and Eric Stoltz was cast; after the filmmakers decided he was wrong for the role, a deal was struck to allow Fox to film ""Back to the Future"" without interrupting his television schedule. ""Back to the Future"" was released on July 3, 1985 and it grossed over $381 million worldwide,"
"teen idol. VH1's show ""The Greatest"" later naming him among their ""50 Greatest Teen Idols."" In January 1985, Fox was cast to replace Eric Stoltz as Marty McFly, a teenager who is accidentally sent back in time from 1985 to 1955 in ""Back to the Future"". Robert Zemeckis, the director, originally wanted Fox to play Marty, but Gary David Goldberg the creator of ""Family Ties"", which Fox was working on at the time, refused to allow Zemeckis even to approach Fox as he felt that as Meredith Baxter was on maternity leave at the time, Fox's character Alex Keaton was"
"heavily from the original. Following the events of ""Back to the Future Part III"", Dr. Emmett ""Doc"" Brown moves to the present time in Hill Valley where, in 1991, he founded the Institute of Future Technology, a scientific institute specializing in his ""futuristic"" inventions. On May 2, 1991, he invites tourists into the facility as ""volunteers"" in order to test out his newest invention, the eight-passenger DeLorean time machine, by traveling one day into the future. Meanwhile, Doc travels to 2015 in the original DeLorean (a new time machine being built out of another DeLorean) to make sure the space"
"Back to the Future (1985 video game) Back to the Future is the name of a 1985 video game released by Electric Dreams Software for the ZX Spectrum, Commodore 64 and Amstrad CPC. The game is loosely based on the 1985 film of the same name. The game is a side view arcade adventure. The aim of the game is to get George McFly to spend as much time as possible with Lorraine Baines. The more time George and Lorraine spend together, the more they will fall in love, and thus more segments will be added to the family photograph"
"Michael J. Fox Michael Andrew Fox (born June 9, 1961), known professionally as Michael J. Fox, is a Canadian-American actor, author, and film producer with a film and television career spanning from the 1970s. He starred in the ""Back to the Future"" trilogy where he portrayed Marty McFly. Other notable roles have included Mike Flaherty on the ABC sitcom ""Spin City"" (1996–2000) and his portrayal of Alex P. Keaton on the American sitcom ""Family Ties"". He has won five Primetime Emmy Awards, four Golden Globe Awards, a Grammy Award and two Screen Actors Guild Awards. Fox was diagnosed with Parkinson's"
"Berry and The Starlighters"" (and Marty McFly), one of the vintage 1950s songs in the movie, and two pop songs that are only very briefly heard in the background of the film . On November 24, 2009, an authorized, limited-edition two-CD set of the entire score was released by Intrada Records. ""Back to the Future"" opened on July 3, 1985, on 1,200 screens in North America. Zemeckis was concerned the film would flop because Fox had to film a ""Family Ties"" special in London and was unable to promote the film. Gale was also dissatisfied with Universal Pictures' tagline ""Are"
"to 1985, a lightning bolt strikes the DeLorean and activates the time circuits, sending Doc back to 1885 and leaving Marty stranded once again in 1955. After finding out that Doc Brown is trapped in 1885, Marty sets out to find the 1955 Doc to help him fix the DeLorean (which has been waiting for him in a mineshaft for seventy years) and restore it to working order. Learning that Doc gets shot in 1885 by Biff's great-grandfather, Buford ""Mad Dog"" Tannen, Marty travels back in time to save Doc (who has become a blacksmith) and bring him back to"
"Part II"" (1989) and ""Back to the Future Part III"" (1990), an animated series, , and several video games. In 1985 Hill Valley, California, teenager Marty McFly and his girlfriend, Jennifer Parker, are chastised by the school principal for lateness. Marty auditions for the Battle of the Bands, but is rejected for being too loud. At home, Marty's father George is bullied by his supervisor, Biff Tannen, while his mother Lorraine is an overweight, depressed alcoholic. Lorraine recalls how she met George when her father hit him with his car. Marty is invited by his friend, eccentric inventor Dr. Emmett"
"In 1990, the film won a Saturn Award for Best Music for Alan Silvestri and a Best Supporting Actor award for Thomas F. Wilson. In 2003, it received an AOL Movies DVD Premiere Award for Best Special Edition of the Year, an award based on consumer online voting. Back to the Future Part III Back to the Future Part III is a 1990 American science fiction Western comedy film and the third and final installment of the ""Back to the Future"" trilogy. The film was directed by Robert Zemeckis, and stars Michael J. Fox, Christopher Lloyd, Mary Steenburgen, Thomas F."
"show's success. With co-star Meredith Baxter on maternity leave, he refused to allow Fox time off to work on a film. ""Back to the Future"" was originally scheduled for a May 1985 release and it was late 1984 when it was learned that Fox would be unable to star in the film. Zemeckis' next two choices were C. Thomas Howell and Eric Stoltz. Stoltz impressed the producers enough with his earlier portrayal of Roy L. Dennis in ""Mask"" (which had yet to be released) that they selected him to play Marty McFly. Because of the difficult casting process, the start"
"flight and henceforth invariably change the course of history in the process. The Blue Yonder The Blue Yonder is a 1985 American science-fiction adventure film. It was directed by Mark Rosman, written by Mark Rosman, produced by Alan Shapiro and Annette Handley, and starred Peter Coyote, Huckleberry Fox, Art Carney, Dennis Lipscomb and Joe Flood. Jonathan Knicks is an 11-year-old who travels back in time from 1985 to 1927 by a time machine built by his neighbor Henry Coogan from the theoretical blue prints of Johnathan's own grandfather. There Jonathan meets his less than illustrious grandfather, Max, and desperately must"
"rehearse and shoot until 2:30 a.m. This schedule lasted for two full months. ""Back to the Future"" was both a commercial and critical success. The film spent 8 consecutive weekends as the number-one grossing movie at the US box office in 1985 and eventually earned a worldwide total of $381.11 million. ""Variety"" applauded the performances, stating that Fox and his co-star Christopher Lloyd imbued Marty and Doc Brown's friendship with a quality reminiscent of King Arthur and Merlin. The film was later followed by two similarly-successful sequels, ""Back to the Future Part II"" (1989) and ""Back to the Future Part"
"the help of Nike via two auctions, one in Hong Kong and the other in London. Michael J. Fox Michael Andrew Fox (born June 9, 1961), known professionally as Michael J. Fox, is a Canadian-American actor, author, and film producer with a film and television career spanning from the 1970s. He starred in the ""Back to the Future"" trilogy where he portrayed Marty McFly. Other notable roles have included Mike Flaherty on the ABC sitcom ""Spin City"" (1996–2000) and his portrayal of Alex P. Keaton on the American sitcom ""Family Ties"". He has won five Primetime Emmy Awards, four Golden"
"In 1985 he again starred in the lead role in ""Secret Admirer"", opposite Lori Loughlin and Kelly Preston. Howell was one of two final actors in the running to play Marty McFly in ""Back to the Future"" the other being Eric Stoltz, who was eventually selected. Michael J. Fox would later go on to replace Stoltz after filming had begun. In 1986, he played a hitchhiker's target in the film ""The Hitcher"". The , in which he also starred, was released in 2003. He starred as a white student who pretends to be black to receive a scholarship in the"
"Brown to help him reunite his parents and return to 1985. The efforts of Biff Tannen, George's bully and supervisor, further complicate Marty's situation until Marty successfully causes his parents to fall in love and simultaneously convinces George to finally stand up to Biff. Returning to the future via a lightning strike that powers the machine, Marty discovers a vastly improved situation for the McFly family, as a much more confident George has become an accomplished science-fiction author, and an apparently-softened Biff is now an auto detailer, rather than George's supervisor. Despite 1955 Doc's insistence on not knowing details of"
"accumulating a worldwide total of $389.1 million. ""Back to the Future"" had the fourth-highest opening weekend of 1985 and was the top-grossing film of the year. Box Office Mojo estimates that the film sold over 59 million tickets in the US. On review aggregator Metacritic the film received an average score of 87, which indicates ""universal acclaim"", based on 12 reviews. On review aggregator Rotten Tomatoes reports that 96% of critics gave the film a positive review based on 77 reviews; the average rating is 8.7/10. The website's consensus reads: ""Inventive, funny, and breathlessly constructed, ""Back to the Future"" is"
"almanac to be used for gambling. Once Biff returns to 2015 without Doc's knowledge, the duo return to 1985, but find themselves in an alternate timeline where Hill Valley is ruled by Biff that Doc described as 1985A (alternate 1985). The DeLorean then travels back to 1955 to restore the timeline, but in the aftermath, it is struck by lightning again in the very same electrical storm, this time by accident. According to writers Bob Gale and Robert Zemeckis, the lightning causes the DeLorean to spin at 88 miles per hour, and Doc later states in a letter to Marty"
"of sporting events to make easy money. However, Doc talks him out of it and throws the almanac in the bin, where the 2015 Biff Tannen finds it. A sleeping Jennifer has been taken by police to her future home, needing Marty and Doc to retrieve her before returning to 1985. While Marty and Doc are at the 2015 McFly home, 2015 Biff steals the DeLorean time machine and gives the book to his 1955 self just before he goes to the dance at the end of the first film. When Doc and Marty return to 1985, they find that"
"""Nineteen Eighty-Four"" by George Orwell, the number 1984 represented a year that had not yet passed. Calendar dates also represent objects of the mind, specifically, past and future times. In """", which was released in 1986, the narration opens with the statement, ""It is the year 2005."" In 1986, that statement was futuristic. During the year 2005, that reference to the year 2005 was factual. Now, ""The Transformers: The Movie"" is retro-futuristic. The number 2005 did not change, but the object of the mind that it represents did change. Deliberate invention also may reference an object of the mind. The"
"The Blue Yonder The Blue Yonder is a 1985 American science-fiction adventure film. It was directed by Mark Rosman, written by Mark Rosman, produced by Alan Shapiro and Annette Handley, and starred Peter Coyote, Huckleberry Fox, Art Carney, Dennis Lipscomb and Joe Flood. Jonathan Knicks is an 11-year-old who travels back in time from 1985 to 1927 by a time machine built by his neighbor Henry Coogan from the theoretical blue prints of Johnathan's own grandfather. There Jonathan meets his less than illustrious grandfather, Max, and desperately must find a way to prevent Max's fatal attempt at a solo trans-Atlantic"
"""Back to the Future"" in 1985. ""Predator"" was his first major action movie and the score is full of his familiar genre characteristics: heavy horn blasts, staccato string rhythms, and undulating timpani rolls that highlight the action and suspense. Little Richard's song ""Long Tall Sally"" is featured in the helicopter en route to the jungle. Mac also recites a few lines from the song as he's chasing the Predator after it escapes from their booby trap. Silvestri returned for the sequel, making him the only composer to have scored more than one film in either the ""Alien"" or ""Predator"" series."
"had been cast, but a pilot she had done for ABC had been picked up, and she was contractually forced to drop out of ""Back to the Future"". During that time, Eric Stoltz had been shooting for five weeks in the role of Marty McFly. Melora Hardin was slated for the role of Jennifer, though she never actually filmed any scenes. The producers halted filming and replaced Stoltz with Michael J. Fox. By then, Wells' pilot had been finished and she was recast as Jennifer, now shooting alongside Fox, never having filmed a frame with Stoltz. That same year (1985),"
"countries worldwide on October 21, 2015 to commemorate the date travelled to by the protagonists in ""Back to the Future Part II"" and generated $4.8 million on its opening day. In the United States and Canada, it earned $1.65 million from ticket sales across 1,815 North American theaters on its opening day. Germany opened with $1.4 million and the United Kingdom with $345,000. Revenues from other territories such as Australia, Austria, France, Italy were moderate. In 1985, MCA Records released the . It featured 8 tracks performed by Huey Lewis and the News, Lindsey Buckingham, Eric Clapton, Marvin Berry and"
"year). Doc and Marty recover the DeLorean from the mine in 1955, and Doc builds a vacuum tube circuit assembly to replace the destroyed microchip circuitry and restore the vehicle's time travel capabilities. The tires have disintegrated in storage, so Doc replaces them with whitewalls. The gasoline engine is still functional, but the flying circuits are not. In a letter Doc wrote to Marty in 1885, Doc states he is happy in his new life there and requests that Marty not attempt to retrieve him, but instead to return to 1985 and destroy the DeLorean, believing that it has brought"
"III"" (1990). During and immediately after the ""Back to the Future"" trilogy, Fox starred in ""Teen Wolf"" (1985),"" Light of Day"" (1987), ""The Secret of My Success"" (1987), ""Bright Lights, Big City"" (1988), and ""Casualties of War"" (1989). In ""The Secret of My Success"", Fox played a recent graduate from Kansas State University who moves to New York City, where he has to deal with the ups and downs of the business world. The film was successful at the box office, grossing $110 million worldwide. Roger Ebert in ""The Chicago Sun Times"" wrote; ""Fox provides a fairly desperate center for"
"The ""Mr. Fusion"" device apparently converts household waste into electrical power; the name suggests nuclear fusion. Due to a ""hover conversion"" made in 2015, the car also becomes capable of hovering and flight, though it lost this ability at the end of the second film. The DeLorean returns to 1985 and proceeds to travel to October 21, 2015, to stop Marty's future son from committing a crime. While there, the DeLorean is stolen by Biff who then travels back to November 12, 1955, the same day as the climax of the first film, to give his past self a sports"
"As Trump and his friends are about to celebrate his 40th birthday, a time traveler comes from the year 2016, planning to stop Trump from running for President of the United States. Then, the 2016 Trump appears, wiping the time traveler from existence, having apparently killed Christopher Lloyd so that he would never appear in the Back to the Future movies. 2016 Trump assures 1986 Trump that he will become President. When Trump and the boy blow out the candles of Trump's birthday cake together, they apparently switch bodies. In a post-credits scene, Ron Howard says that the film was"