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:	512

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	Emmett Brown
Crispin Glover	George McFly
Lea Thompson	Lorraine Baines
Claudia Wells	Jennifer Parker
Thomas F. Wilson	Biff Tannen
Marc McClure	Dave McFly
Wendy Jo Sperber	Linda McFly
George Ralph DiCenzo	Sam Baines
Frances Lee McCain	Stella Baines
Billy Zane	Match
Jeffrey Jay Cohen	Skinhead
Casey Siemaszko	3-D
James Tolkan	Mr. Strickland
Harry Waters Jr.	Marvin Berry
Donald Fullilove	Goldie Wilson
Cristen Kauffman	Betty
Elsa Raven	Clocktower Lady
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
Jamie Abbott	Scooter Kid #2
Norman Alden	Lou
Read Morgan	Cop,Cop
Sachi Parker	Bystander #1
Robert Krantz	Bystander #2
Karen Petrasek	Girl #1
George 'Buck' Flower	Red the Bum
Tommy Thomas	Starlighter
Granville 'Danny' Young	Starlighter
David Harold Brown	Starlighter
Lloyd L. Tolbert	Starlighter
Lee Brownfield	Pinhead
Robert DeLapp	Pinhead
Tony Pope	1985 Radio Announcer
Charles L. Campbell	1955 Radio Announcer
Huey Lewis	High School Band Audition Judge
Hal Gausman	Mayor Red Thomas
Deborah Harmon	TV Newscaster
Arthur Tovey	Wilbur
Tom Tangen	Student
Tom Willett	Pedestrian in Town Square
Paul Hansen	Pinhead
Alan Silvestri	Composer
Elizabeth Chambers	Actor

Technical Credits

Robert Zemeckis	Director
Bob Gale	Producer
Neil Canton	Producer
Steve Spielberg	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.