Scene from Back to the Future

AFI's #10 Sci-Fi Movie

Back to the Future

Release Date: July 3, 1985

He's the only kid ever to get into trouble before he was born.

With the help of a wacky scientist, a young teen travels back to 1955 in a Delorean turned time-machine. Once there, he meets his parents, still teenagers, but his presence throws things out-of-whack and he must ensure they fall in love and get married or else he'll never come to exist.

  • 1HR 56MIN ' PG
  • Sci-Fi

Cast & Crew

  • Michael J. FoxMarty McFly

  • Christopher LloydDr. Emmett Brown

  • Crispin GloverGeorge McFly

  • Lea ThompsonLorraine Baines

  • Claudia WellsJennifer Parker

  • Robert ZemeckisWriter & Director

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