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Back to the Future is a 1985 film directed by Robert Zemeckis, written by Zemeckis and Bob Gale, and starring Michael J. Fox and Christopher Lloyd. The movie opened on July 3, 1985 with artist Drew Struzan creating the film series' distinctive artwork used on movie posters and in other marketing.

After the success of the film, its two sequels were filmed together, Back to the Future Part II
and Back to the Future Part III
, forming a trilogy. Back to the Future grossed US$210 million dollars at the US box office, making it the highest grossing film of 1985. On December 17 2002, Universal Home Video released Back to the Future: The Complete Trilogy on DVD and VHS.

Following the completion of the film series, two more spin-off projects surfaced. CBS TV aired an animated series, while Harvey Comics (publishers of Casper the Friendly Ghost) released a handful of similarly styled comic books, although their stories were original and not merely duplicates of the cartoon.

Plot synopsis

1985 - Story Setting

Marty McFly, a 17-year old senior in high school, and an avid skateboarder and electric guitarist, is invited by his friend Dr. Emmett Brown, a local scientist who is rather eccentric, to witness a demonstration of Doc's latest invention, his life's ambition: a time-machine made from a modified De Lorean sports car which must reach 88 miles per hour in order to travel through time. At first the car is successfully tested on Doc's dog, Einstein (named after Albert Einstein), who is sent one minute into the future. Following the test, a group of Libyan terrorists (from whom Doc has stolen the plutonium necessary to fuel the time machine, by promising to build them a bomb, but instead providing a shiny bomb casing full of used pinball machine parts), come looking for revenge. The Libyans open fire on Doc Brown, unloading a barrage of bullets into his chest. Marty escapes from the Libyans in the De Lorean; while doing so, he inadvertently travels back in time to the year 1955.

1955

It is here that Marty accidentally interferes with the first meeting of his parents George McFly and Lorraine Baines, an act with seismic cosmic significance, as it jeopardizes Marty's own existence. This happens when Marty pushes George out of the path of Lorraine's father's car and gets hit himself rather than George who was in the road after he fell from a tree where he was using binoculars to watch a girl (Lorraine) changing. It is then Marty (rather than George) who is taken inside Lorraine's house for aide. Marty meets his mother's 1955 family and has dinner with them. He then heads off to find the Doc of 1955, who is skeptical at first about Marty's account. Everyone seems to think Marty is serving in the coast guard because of the puffy orange down vest he wears which looks like a life preserver. Doc in 1955 is not yet a successful inventor; none of his inventions work at all. Doc in 1985 dialed-up the year 1955 because that was when he fell and had the vision of the flux capacitor ("which is what makes time travel possible"). Marty uses this information to explain to Doc how he bruised his head, thus convincing Doc that Marty really is from the future. Doc is then surprised and overjoyed when Marty shows him the flux capacitor in the time machine which actually works.

Marty has a snapshot of himself with his sister and brother, and 1955 Doc Brown discovers they're fading out, first Dave, the oldest, then Linda. Marty finds himself stranded, not having brought any additional plutonium back with him. Plutonium in 1955, Marty soon finds out, is "a little hard to come by". The plutonium is used to create the "1.21 gigawatts" of electricity used to power the flux capacitor. Doc is blown away by this seemingly huge amount, stating that the only thing with enough power for that is a bolt of lightning. Fortunately, Marty has a flyer from 1985 that reproduces a news story that gives the Doc Brown of 1955 some valuable information.

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Movies - Back to the Future

Plot synopsis

1985 - Story Setting

1955

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