Seventeen-year-old high school student Marty McFly (Michael J. Fox) accidentally travels thirty years into the past when an experiment by his eccentric scientist friend, Dr. Emmett Brown (Christopher Lloyd), goes wildly awry in a plutonium-powered DeLorean time machine.
Stranded in 1955 Hill Valley, Marty inadvertently interferes with his teenage parents’ first meeting, threatening to erase his own existence entirely from the timeline unless he can successfully play matchmaker between his geeky father and teenage mother.
To make matters worse, he must also find a way to harness a bolt of lightning to power the DeLorean and send himself back to 1985 before time runs out.
Robert Zemeckis directs an ingenious, perfectly paced sci-fi adventure comedy co-written by Bob Gale that stands as one of the most flawless screenplays in Hollywood history.
From the iconic clock tower lightning strike to the birth of rock ‘n’ roll at the “Enchantment Under the Sea” dance, this timeless masterpiece remains pure, high-octane cinematic magic.
Adventure, Comedy, Sci-Fi, 1985
United States (English) 116 Min
