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(out of 5)
This first instalment in the popular science-fiction trilogy is still by far the best of the bunch, and one of the most delightful time-travel movies ever made. Michael J. Fox plays a teenager who is taken back in time by a kooky scientist (Christopher Lloyd) to the 1950s. When he gets there, he meets a teenaged version of his mother (Lea Thompson) who accidentally falls in love with him, and then by sheer mishap he prevents his father from meeting his mother, thus negating his own existence. What he must do to ensure his own birth and then travel back to the present is a whirlwind adventure that isn’t dull for a second. Lloyd is terrific as the loopy experimenter, and Robert Zemeckis’s script (co-written with Bob Gale) is one of the year’s best.
Universal Pictures, Amblin Entertainment
USA, 1985
Directed by Robert Zemeckis
Screenplay by Robert Zemeckis, Bob Gale
Cinematography by Dean Cundey
Produced by Neil Canton, Bob Gale
Music by Alan Silvestri
Production Design by Lawrence G. Paull
Costume Design by Deborah Lynn Scott
Film Editing by Harry Keramidas, Arthur Schmidt
