Back to the Future

Director: Robert Zemeckis Robert Zemeckis

Overview

A high-school student in the '80s befriends an eccentric scientist working on a time machine and finds himself sent back to the '50s. After accidentally interfering in the budding romance of his parents, he must figure out a way to get them back together or he will never be born.

Product Details

Release Date:	03/08/2016
UPC:	0025192336997
Original Release:	1985
Rating:	PG
Source:	STUDIO DISTRIBUTION SERVS LLC
Region Code:	1
Sound:	[Dolby Digital Stereo, Dolby Digital 5.1 Surround]
Language:	English
Time:	1:56:00
Sales rank:	1,072

Special Features

The Making of Back to the Future; Making the Trilogy: Chapter One; Q&A with Director Robert Zemeckis and Producer Bob Gale; Enhanced Conversation with with Michael J. Fox; Feature Commentary with Producers Bob Gale and Neil Canton; Deleted Scenes; Outtakes; Universal Animated Anecdotes; Original Makeup Tests; Production Archives; Excerpts from the Original Screenplay

Cast & Crew

Performance Credits

Michael J. Fox	Marty McFly
Christopher Lloyd	Dr. Emmett Brown
Lea Thompson	Lorraine Baines
Crispin Glover	George McFly
Thomas F. Wilson	Biff Tannen(as Thomas F. Wilson)
Claudia Wells	Jennifer Parker
Marc McClure	Dave McFly
Wendie Jo Sperber	Linda McFly
George DiCenzo	Sam Baines
Frances Lee McCain	Stella Baines
James Tolkan	Mr. Strickland
J.J. Cohen	Skinhead(as Jeffrey Jay Cohen)
Casey Siemaszko	3-D
Billy Zane	Match
Harry Waters Jr.	Marvin Berry
Donald Fullilove	Goldie Wilson
Cristen Kauffman	Betty
Elsa Raven	Clocktower Lady
Lisa Freeman	Babs
Will Hare	Pa Peabody
Ivy Bethune	Ma Peabody
Jason Marin	Sherman Peabody
Katherine Britton	Peabody Daughter
Jason Hervey	Milton Baines
Maia Brewton	Sally Baines
Courtney Gains	Dixon
Richard L. Duran	Terrorist
Jeff O'Haco	Terrorist Van Driver
Boyd Morgan	Cop
Paul Hansen	Pinhead
Deborah Harmon	Newscaster (uncredited)
Elizabeth Chambers	Actor

Technical Credits

Robert Zemeckis	Director
Steven Spielberg	Executive Producer
Kathleen Kennedy	Executive Producer
Neil Canton	Producer
Bob Gale	Producer
Frank Marshall	Executive Producer
Judy Taylor	Casting
Jane Feinberg	Casting
B. Sebastian II	Sound/Sound Designer

Editorial Reviews

Back to the Future is Robert Zemeckis/Steven Spielberg storytelling at its best, with humor, action, special effects and a Huey Lewis soundtrack rolled together in a package that proves "Fun" and "PG" are not antonyms. Michael J. Fox, then known mostly for his role on TV's Family Ties, is a teenage everyman who fulfills the dream of escaping his go-nowhere home life and dorky parents, only to find them transformed by his own hand. Supporting him is Christopher Lloyd, let loose to do what he does best -- act like a complete nut -- in the role of mad scientist Doc Brown. The film makes the most of the notion that Fox's Marty McFly can change the future, and successfully pays off on an astounding number of plot angles. Marty not only assures his own continued existence but changes the makeup of his family and community by helping his dad grow a backbone or (if you're watching carefully) altering the name of the local mall. More than just a series of anachronisms, Back to the Future has a real heart. You suffer along with Marty's teenaged dad, George, at the depredations of his tormentor, Biff, and get a genuine surge of adrenaline and pride when George finally takes his stand. Could this event lead to a changed life? In Back to the Future it does, believably. In fact, the film has more in common with the sentimental fantasy of It's a Wonderful Life than with the often-mindless action of the science fiction pictures that followed, proving that bigger budgets and more elaborate special effects didn't exactly lead to a higher-quality summer blockbuster.