Director: Robert Zemeckis

Cast: Michael J. Fox, Christopher Lloyd, Lea Thompson

Synopsis:

Marty McFly goes back in time, in a DeLorean invented by his friend, Dr. Emmett Brown, and must make sure his high-school-age parents get together, so he doesn't cease to exist.

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THE people in Robert Zemeckis's films have the great fun of living out their craziest daydreams. And the crazier the better: Mr. Zemeckis, together with his screenwriting partner Bob Gale, has progressed from teen-age kamikazes willing to risk anything to meet the Beatles (''I Wanna Hold Your Hand,'') to salesmen ready to peddle any form of figurative snake oil (''Used Cars'') to a timid pulp novelist who travels to the tropics (''Romancing the Stone,'' with a screenplay by Diane Thomas) and becomes her own most adventuresome heroine.

Mr. Zemeckis has now gone himself one better with ''Back to the Future,'' about a boy who wonders what his parents were like in their salad days and is miraculously given the chance to find out. What child wouldn't love the chance to tell the two lovestruck teen-agers who will someday become his mother and father: ''Hey, if you guys ever have kids and one of them, when he's 8 years old, accidentally sets fire to the living room rug - go easy on him, willya?''

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