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Back to the Future

1985Movie1 h 56 minPG1 award

Comedy
86
ExcellentGoodWatch score
IMDb8.5Letterboxd4.2/5Metacritic889.0
86
ExcellentGoodWatch score
IMDb8.5Letterboxd4.2/5Metacritic889.0

Summary

Eighties teenager Marty McFly is accidentally sent back in time to 1955, inadvertently disrupting his parents' first meeting and attracting his mother's romantic interest. Marty must repair the damage to history by rekindling his parents' romance and - with the help of his eccentric inventor friend Doc Brown - return to 1985.

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  • Friends night

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Close-Enough TimelineRare · in 51 titlesSince Marty has to get his parents together but can't recreate the exact circumstances of their first meeting, he ends up unwittingly changing the timeline.Early-Installment Weirdnessin 2,762 titlesA prominent plot point in the sequels is that Marty intensely dislikes being called a "chicken" and that this insult can be used to manipulate him into doing reckless things.All 399 tropes

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The Back to the Future series

Film 1 of 3 · then Back to the Future Part II

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