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Back to the Future: 40th Anniversary

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Movie Info & Cast

Synopsis

Marty McFly, a 17-year-old high school student, is accidentally sent 30 years into the past in a time-traveling DeLorean invented by his close friend, the maverick scientist Doc Brown.

Cast

  • Michael J. Fox
  • Christopher Lloyd
  • Lea Thompson
  • Crispin Glover
  • Tom Wilson
  • Claudia Wells
  • Marc McClure
  • Wendie Jo Sperber
  • George DiCenzo
  • Frances Lee McCain
Moviegoers are saying
Back to the Future emerges as the ultimate comfort food cinema - a film so structurally perfect it may have 'ruined movies' by setting an impossible standard, yet continues to generate ear-to-ear grins and repeat viewings decades later. Despite some viewers noting its formulaic perfection as a potential flaw, audiences consistently describe it as pure joy, with many discovering or rediscovering its magic across multiple generations.
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Heart-Pounding
Family-Bonding
Comfort-Cinema
Repeat-Worthy
Smile-Inducing
Generational-Classic
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Reviews

Metacritic

70

This piece of Pop Art Americana is a clever, generally engaging screwball comedy.

Pauline Kael
The New Yorker
100

The smartest, sweetest, funniest comedy in many summers. [08 July 1985, p.76]

Metacritic review by Jack Kroll
Jack Kroll
Newsweek
100

Among the plethora of innocent charms on offer, there's the near perfect script by Zemekis and Bob Gale which not only negotiates its time travel paradoxes with deft, exuberant wit but invests the light-hearted plot machinations with a seasoning note of honest drama.

Metacritic review by Adam Smith
Adam Smith
Empire