Back to the Future

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Back to the Future

film by Zemeckis [1985]

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Back to the Future is a 1985 American science fiction comedy film directed by Robert Zemeckis. The film stars Michael J. Fox as Marty McFly, a teenager who is accidentally sent back in time to 1955 in a DeLorean time machine. While in the past, Marty inadvertently interferes with his parents' first meeting and must ensure they fall in love to guarantee his own existence. He also seeks the help of a younger version of his eccentric scientist friend, Dr. Emmett \"Doc\" Brown, to find a way back to his own time. The film was a critical and commercial success and spawned two sequels.12

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DeLorean DMC-12
…its role in the blockbusting Back to the Future film trilogy (1985–90), whose first installment appeared two years after the last DMC-12 was produced..
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…its role in the blockbusting Back to the Future film trilogy (1985–90), whose first installment appeared two years after the last DMC-12 was produced..
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Robert Zemeckis
With his time-traveling teen comedy Back to the Future (1985) and its sequels, Zemeckis began earning a reputation for visual innovation, which he cemented with Who Framed Roger Rabbit (1988), a feature film that combined the onscreen action of live actors and cartoon characters. In Forrest Gump (1994), the title…
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With his time-traveling teen comedy Back to the Future (1985) and its sequels, Zemeckis began earning a reputation for visual innovation, which he cemented with Who Framed Roger Rabbit (1988), a feature film that combined the onscreen action of live actors and cartoon characters. In Forrest Gump (1994), the title…
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Michael J. Fox
…McFly in the hit comedy Back to the Future (1985) and its sequels (1989 and 1990).
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…McFly in the hit comedy Back to the Future (1985) and its sequels (1989 and 1990).
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science fiction
Time travel
(1972), Time Bandits (1981), Back to the Future (1985), The Terminator (1984), Twelve Monkeys (1995), Primer (2004), and Looper (2012).
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(1972), Time Bandits (1981), Back to the Future (1985), The Terminator (1984), Twelve Monkeys (1995), Primer (2004), and Looper (2012).
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Resurgence
…the format include Robert Zemeckis’s Back to the Future (1985), Steven Spielberg’s Jurassic Park (1993), Sam Raimi’s Spider-Man (2002), and Christopher Nolan’s The Dark Knight (2008).
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…the format include Robert Zemeckis’s Back to the Future (1985), Steven Spielberg’s Jurassic Park (1993), Sam Raimi’s Spider-Man (2002), and Christopher Nolan’s The Dark Knight (2008).
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