Marty McFly is a teenager who likes doing all the things teenage boys do: playing the guitar, zipping about town on his skateboard and trying to woo the pretty Jennifer Parker. But despite seeming to be a normal, well-adjusted kid, all is not well at home: his father, George, is a hen-pecked nerd, his mother Lorraine is an alcoholic, and there's something not quite right about his younger brother and sister. Marty seeks to escape the problems at home by entering the world of his friend and neighbour, the mad professor Dr Emmett Brown, who is trying to make a time travel machine. Accidentally activating the plutonium-powered DeLorean car, Marty is shot back in time to 1955, when his own parents were teenagers. There he has to make sure his parents fall in love and marry; if that weren't enough, he doesn't have enough plutonium to get back to his own time, and has to enlist the help of the younger Doc Brown, who can't quite believe what he is destined to invent in the future.
Review:
Snappy dialogue, great special effects and great performances by Michael J Fox, Crispin Glover and particularly Christopher Lloyd deservedly made this rollicking slice of feel-good science fiction one of the highest grossing comedies of all time.
