Back to the Future (1985)

 ●  English ● 1 hr 56 mins

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Fast paced and fantastic, this futuristic sci-fi thriller is set in is the year 1985, and follows the adventures of Marty McFly, a mild-mannered high school student, and his mentor, Dr. Emmett L. Brown. When Marty he receives an urgent message from Doc, that he needs help from him for Doc's latest invention, he is intrigued. To his utter fascination and awe, he finds that the invention is a time machine made out of a DeLorean sports car, that can travel through time instantaneously when it reaches a speed velocity of 88 MPH. Then, Doc is inexplicably and shockingly gunned down by Libyan Nationalists, leaving Marty with the frightening task of escaping from the Lybians, and undoing the damage with the help of the time machine. Further complications arise when, Marty accidentally warps himself into 1955. Where he meets both of his parents when they were teenagers, then Marty unintentionally interrupts his parent's first meeting together, he then finds a younger version of Doc and together they try to find a way to get Marty's parents-to-be back together, and to get Marty back to 1985.
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Cast: Lea Thompson, Michael J Fox

Crew: Robert Zemeckis (Director), Dean Cundey (Director of Photography), Alan Silvestri (Music Director)

Rating: PG (Singapore)

Genres: Action, Adventure, Sci-Fi

Release Dates: 03 Jul 1985 (India)

Tagline: Marty McFly just broke the time barrier. He's only got one week to get it fixed.

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Did you know? The script was originally rejected 40 times before it was finally green-lit. Read More
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Film Type:
Feature
Language:
English
Colour Info:
Color
Sound Mix:
6-Track 70mm, Dolby
Frame Rate:
24 fps
Aspect Ratio:
1.37:1
Stereoscopy:
No
Taglines:
Marty McFly just broke the time barrier. He's only got one week to get it fixed.
17 year old Marty McFly got home early last night. 30 years early.
He was never in time for his classes . . .Then one day he wasn't in his time at all.
He's the only kid ever to get into trouble before he was born.
Movie Connection(s):
Referenced in: Knight and Day (English)
Referenced in: Home (English)
Goofs:
Audio/Video Mismatch
The sound and volume of Marty's singing never changes, even when he moves way back from the mic.

Character Error
In the scene where Biff returns George's wrecked car. Biff opens the refrigerator, and says "I have your car towed all the way to your house, and all you got for me is lite beer?" There are clearly 3 cans of regular Budweiser on the door to his left.

Character Error
The "Libyan" driver wears a Saudi headdress.

Continuity
In the scene where the DeLorean goes 1 minute into the future, the fire goes between Doc's legs but when the camera switches angles, it no longer does.

Continuity
The wheels seen on Marty's skateboard when the Doc backs the DeLorean out of the truck change from yellow to pink.

Continuity
In the scene where Marty is escaping from the Libyans, the time circuit is already on when he moves his hand from the ignition to the gearshift. But when he shifts the second time, the time circuit seems to be off until he bumps its power switch.

Continuity
In the scene where Doc dislodges the cable from the lamppost you can see the minute hand on the clock tower advance, yet one moment later when he looks over his shoulder the minute hand advances again.

Continuity
At the dance scene, the picture under the strings at the head of Marty's guitar disappears in long shots.

Revealing Mistakes
In the scene where doc is using the remote control for the time machine at the start, a close up of the remote control shows that the voltmeter for the battery is reading zero - the unit is off.
Trivia:
The script was originally rejected 40 times before it was finally green-lit.

Crispin Glover has claimed to have only seen the film once, shortly after its release.

Earlier Ralph Macchio turned down the role of Marty McFly, thinking the movie was about "A kid, a car, and plutonium pills."

Sticker seen on Doc's rear truck: One nuclear bomb can ruin your whole day.

It took three hours in make-up to turn the 23-year-old Lea Thompson to look like a 47-year-old Lorraine.