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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.
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
Cast Tags: Billy Zane, Casey Siemaszko, Christopher Lloyd, Claudia Wells,Courtney Gains, Crispin Glover, Cristen Kauffman, David Harold Brown, Donald Fullilove, Elsa Raven, Frances Lee McCain, Gary Riley, George ‘Buck’ Flower, George DiCenzo, Granville ‘Danny’ Young, Harry Waters Jr., Ivy Bethune, J.J. Cohen, James Tolkan, Jamie Abbott, Jason Hervey,Jason Marin, Jeff O’Haco, Johnny Green, Karen Petrasek, Katherine Britton, Lea Thompson, Lee Brownfield, Lisa Freeman, Lloyd L. Tolbert, Maia Brewton, Marc McClure, Michael J. Fox, Norman Alden, Paul Hanson, Read Morgan, Richard L. Duran, Robert DeLapp, Robert Krantz, Sachi Parker, Thomas F. Wilson, Tommy Thomas, Wendie Jo Sperber, Will Hare
Academy Award
Best Sound Effects Editing (Charles L. Campbell, Robert Rutledge)
Nominations
Best Music (Original Song) (“The Power of Love”, music by Chris Hayes, Johnny Colla; Lyric by Huey Lewis)
Best Sound (Bill Varney, B. Tennyson Sebastian II, Robert Thirlwell, William B. Kaplan)
Best Writing (Screenplay Written Directly For the Screen) (Robert Zemeckis, Bob Gale)
Golden Globe Award Nominations
Best Motion Picture-Comedy or Musical
Best Performance By An Actor in a Motion Picture-Comedy or Musical (Michael J. Fox)
Best Screenplay (Bob Gale)
Best Original Song-Motion Picture (“The Power of Love”, music by Johnny Colla, Chris Hayes, lyrics by Huey Lewis)
National Board Of Review Award
Top Ten Films
Writers Guild Award Nomination
Best Original Screenplay
British Academy Award Nominations
Best Film
Best Screenplay – Original
Best Editing
Best Special Visual Effects
Best Production Design
