Back to the Future (1985)
Back to the Future (1985)
Michael J. Fox and Christopher Lloyd star in this comedy sci-fi adventure about time travel "in a DeLorean?" with Crispin Glover and Lea Thompson also playing memorable roles. Directed by Robert Zemeckis (Forrest Gump (1994)) who co-wrote the screenplay which was nominated for an Oscar. The film’s Best Effects Sound Effects Editing won an Oscar; its Sound and Huey Lewis’s Original Song "The Power of Love" were also nominated. Followed by two sequels.
A slightly different take on the "buddy film" with guitar playing wannabe Fox as a high school student friend of odd ball inventor Lloyd who’s just invented a time machine out of the stainless steel automobile. When Lloyd is "killed" by terrorists shortly after proving that his invention works Fox inadvertently travels back to the time his folks were in high school and interrupts his parent’s crucial first encounter. In fact his mom (Thompson) falls for him! Because of this he must figure out a way to "reunite" his future parents else his very existence is in danger. He knocks on the much younger Lloyd’s door and works with the eccentric inventor to figure out a way to return "back to the future". Thomas Wilson plays Biff Fox’s father’s (Glover) nemesis in the present and the past who makes the younger Lloyd and Fox’s task especially difficult.
Added to the National Film Registry in 2007.