Back to the Future (1985) |
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Back to the Future Cast |
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Crispin Glover
(as George McFly)
with Lea Thompson
(as Lorraine Baines McFly)
Michael J. Fox
(as Marty McFly)
with Claudia Wells
(as Jennifer Parker)
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Back to the Future (1985) was nominated for the following awards:
Academy AwardsBAFTA AwardsGolden Globes
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Golden Globe
1986 Academy of Science Fiction, Fantasy & Horror Films, USAWriters Guild of America, USA
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WGA Award (Screen)
1986 David di Donatello Awards
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David
1986
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David
1986 Grammy Awards
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Grammy
1986
Best Album of Original Score Written for a Motion Picture or Television Special
Nominated
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Grammy
1986
Best Album of Original Score Written for a Motion Picture or Television Special
Nominated
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Grammy
1986
Best Album of Original Score Written for a Motion Picture or Television Special
Sean Hopper
Nominated
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Grammy
1986
Best Album of Original Score Written for a Motion Picture or Television Special
Johnny Colla
Nominated
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Grammy
1986
Best Album of Original Score Written for a Motion Picture or Television Special
Chris Hayes
Nominated
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Grammy
1986
Best Album of Original Score Written for a Motion Picture or Television Special
Nominated
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Grammy
1986
Best Album of Original Score Written for a Motion Picture or Television Special
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 George McFly: Lorraine, my density has bought me to you.
Lorraine Baines: What?
George McFly: Oh, what I meant to say was...
Lorraine Baines: Wait a minute, don`t I know you from somewhere?
George McFly: Yes. Yes. I`m George, George McFly. I`m your density. I mean... your destiny.
George McFly: Last night, Darth Vader came down from planet Vulcan and told me that if I didn`t take Lorraine out that he`d melt my brain. Marty McFly: Wait a minute, Doc. Ah... Are you telling me that you built a time machine... out of a DeLorean?
Dr. Emmett Brown: The way I see it, if you`re gonna build a time machine into a car, why not do it with some style? [1955 Doc is watching a video of 1985 Doc]
Dr. Emmett Brown: What on Earth`s this thing I`m wearing?
Marty McFly: Ah, this, this is a radiation suit.
Dr. Emmett Brown: Radiation suit? Of course, because of all the fallout from the atomic wars. [in the past, Marty observes his dad`s incompetence]
Marty McFly: Jesus, George, it was a wonder I was even born. Mr. Strickland: I noticed your band is on the roster for the dance auditions after school today. Why even bother, McFly? You don`t have a chance, you`re too much like your old man. No McFly ever amounted to anything in the history of Hill Valley!
Marty McFly: Yeah, well, history is gonna change. [repeated line]
Marty McFly: If you put your mind to it, you can accomplish anything. Biff Tannen: Mr. McFly! Mr. McFly, this just arrived. Oh, Hi, Marty. I think it`s your new book.
Lorraine Baines: Oh, Honey. Your first novel!
George McFly: Like I`ve always told you, you put your mind to it, you can accomplish *anything*.
Biff Tannen: Oh, Marty... Marty, here`s your keys. You`re all waxed up, ready for tonight.
Marty McFly: Keys? Marty McFly: Too loud. I can`t believe it. I`m never gonna get a chance to play in front of anybody.
Jennifer Parker: Marty, one rejection isn`t the end of the world.
Marty McFly: Nah, I just don`t think I`m cut out for music.
Jennifer Parker: But you`re good, Marty, you`re really good. And this audition tape of yours is great. You`ve gotta send it in to the record company. It`s like Doc`s always saying...
Marty McFly: Yeah, I know, I know. If you put your mind to it you can accomplish anything.
[He sees two girls walk by and looks at them]
Jennifer Parker: [turns Marty`s head back to her] That`s good advice, Marty. Biff Tannen: And uh, where`s my reports?
George McFly: Uh, well, I haven`t finished those up yet, but you know I... I figured since they weren`t due till...
Biff Tannen: Hello? Hello? Anybody home? Huh? Think, McFly. Think! I gotta have time to get `em retyped. Do you realize what would happen if I hand in my reports in your handwriting? I`ll get fired. You wouldn`t want that to happen, would ya? Would ya?
George McFly: Of course not, Biff. Nah, I wouldn`t want that to happen. Now, look. I`ll, uh, finish those reports on up tonight and I`ll run `em on over first thing tomorrow. All right?
Biff Tannen: Eh, not too early. I sleep in Saturdays. Oh, McFly, your shoe`s untied.
[jabs his finger up to George`s face]
Biff Tannen: Don`t be so gullible, McFly. Got the place fixed up nice-o, McFly. Marty McFly: [being chased by terrorists] Let`s see if you bastards can do 90. [concerning his audition tape]
Marty McFly: What if I send in the tape and they don`t like it? I mean, what if they say I`m no good? What if they say "Get outta here, kid. You got no future."? I mean, I just don`t think I can take that kind of rejection. Jesus, I`m starting to sound like my old man! Dave McFly: [kissing George McFly on the head] See ya later, Pop. Whooo, time to change that oil. Dr. Emmett Brown: If my calculations are correct, when this baby hits eighty-eight miles per hour... you`re gonna see some serious shit. Lou: You gonna order something, kid?
Marty McFly: Ah, yeah... Give me - Give me a Tab.
Lou: Tab? I can`t give you a tab unless you order something.
Marty McFly: All right, give me a Pepsi Free.
Lou: You want a Pepsi, PAL, you`re gonna pay for it. Goldie Wilson: [rushes up to George] Say! What do you let those boys push you around like that for?
George McFly: Well, they`re bigger than me.
Goldie Wilson: Stand tall, boy. Have some respect for yourself. Don`t you know if you let people walk over you now, they`ll be walking over you for the rest of your life! Look at me. You think I`m gonna spend the rest of my life in this slop house?
Lou: Watch it, Goldie!
Goldie Wilson: No, sir! I`m gonna make something of myself. I`m going to Night School. And one day I`m gonna *be* somebody!
Marty McFly: That`s right! He`s gonna be mayor.
Goldie Wilson: Yeah, I`m gonna...
[smiles, one of his front teeth is gold]
Goldie Wilson: Mayor! Now *that`s* a good idea! I can run for mayor.
Lou: A colored mayor, that`ll be the day.
Goldie Wilson: You wait and see, Mr. Carruthers. I *will* be mayor! I`ll be the most powerful man in Hill Valley. And I`m gonna clean up this town.
Lou: Good. You can start by sweeping the floor.
[hands Goldie a broom]
Goldie Wilson: [stands tall with a hand over his heart] Mayor Goldie Wilson. Like the sound of that.
[collects George`s dishes] [Lorraine`s parents are talking about Marty McFly, Lorraine`s future son]
Stella Baines: He`s a very strange young man.
Sam Baines: He`s an idiot. Comes from upbringing. His parents are probably idiots too. Lorraine, if you ever have a kid that acts that way I`ll disown you. [Dr. Emmett Brown is doubting Marty McFly`s story about that he is from the future]
Dr. Emmett Brown: Then tell me, "Future Boy", who`s President in the United States in 1985?
Marty McFly: Ronald Reagan.
Dr. Emmett Brown: Ronald Reagan? The actor?
[chuckles in disbelief]
Dr. Emmett Brown: Then who`s VICE-President? Jerry Lewis?
[rushing out and down a hill toward his laboratory]
Dr. Emmett Brown: I suppose Jane Wyman is the First Lady!
Marty McFly: [following Doc] Whoa! Wait! Doc!
Dr. Emmett Brown: And Jack Benny is Secretary of the Treasury.
Marty McFly: [outside the lab door] Doc, you gotta listen to me.
Dr. Emmett Brown: [opens the door to the lab] I`ve had enough practical jokes for one evening. Good night, Future Boy!
[closes the door leaving Marty outside]
Marty McFly: No, wait! Doc. Doc. The-the-the bruise - the bruise on your head. I know how that happened! You told me the whole story. You were standing on your toilet, and you were hanging a clock, and you fell, and you hit your head on the sink. And that`s when you came up with the idea for the Flux Capacitor...
[somberly]
Marty McFly: Which... is what makes time travel possible.
[Doc opens the door and looks at Marty with a stunned look on his face] Marty McFly: Wait a minute, Doc, are you trying to tell me that my mother has got the hots for me?
Dr. Emmett Brown: Precisely.
Marty McFly: Whoa, this is heavy.
Dr. Emmett Brown: There`s that word again; "heavy". Why are things so heavy in the future? Is there a problem with the earth`s gravitational pull? [repeated line]
Marty McFly: This is heavy. [talking about the Time Machine]
Marty McFly: [looks through a camcorder] This is uh... This is heavy duty, Doc. This is great. Uh, does it run, like, on regular unleaded gasoline?
Dr. Emmett Brown: Unfortunately no, it requires something with a little more kick - plutonium.
Marty McFly: Uh, plutonium? Wait a minute. Are-
[lowers the camcorder]
Marty McFly: Are you telling me that this sucker is nuclear?
Dr. Emmett Brown: Hey, hey, hey. Keep rolling. Keep rolling, there.
[Marty raises the camcorder]
Dr. Emmett Brown: No, no, no, no, no. This sucker`s electrical. But I need a nuclear reaction to generate the 1.21 gigawatts of electricity I need.
Marty McFly: Doc, you don`t just walk into a store and-and buy plutonium. Did you rip that off?
Dr. Emmett Brown: Shhhhhh. Of course. From a group of Libyan nationalists. They wanted me to build them a bomb, so I took their plutonium and in turn, gave them a shiny bomb-casing full of used pinball machine parts! Come on! Let`s get you a radiation suit. We must prepare to reload.
Biff Tannen: Since you`re new here, I-I`m gonna cut you a break... today. So, why don`t you make like a tree and get outta here? George McFly: Lou. Give me a milk...
[dramatic pause]
George McFly: Chocolate. Dr. Emmett Brown: You`re late, do you have no concept of time?
Marty McFly: Hey c`mon, I had to change, you think I`m going back in that, that zoot suit? The old man really came through, it worked!
Dr. Emmett Brown: What?
Marty McFly: He laid out Biff in one punch! I didn`t know he had it in him! He`s never stood up to Biff in his life! Red the Bum: [Marty has crashed into a theater after getting back to 1985] Crazy drunk driver. Dr. Emmett Brown: Don`t worry. As long as you hit that wire with the connecting hook at precisely 88mph the instant the lightning strikes the tower... everything will be fine. [last lines]
Marty McFly: Doc, we better back up. We don`t have enough road to get up to 88.
Dr. Emmett Brown: Roads? Where we`re going we don`t need roads. Dr. Emmett Brown: [reads the "Save the Clock Tower" flyer and reacts with hope] This is it! This is the answer. It says here... that a bolt of lightning is going to strike the clock tower at precisely 10:04pm, next Saturday night! If... If we could somehow... *harness* this lightning... *channel* it... into the flux capacitor... it just might work. Next Saturday night, we`re sending you back to the future! Dr. Emmett Brown: I`m sure that in 1985 plutonium is available in every corner drugstore, but in 1955 it`s a little hard to come by. George McFly: I know what you`re gonna say, son. And you`re right,
[chuckles breathlessly]
George McFly: you`re right. But uh... Biff just happens to be my supervisor, and I`m afraid I`m just not very good at... confrontations.
Marty McFly: The car, Dad. I mean he wrecked it. He totaled it. I needed that car tomorrow night, Dad. I mean, do you have any idea h-how important this was to me? Do you have any clue?
George McFly: I know, and all I can say is I`m... I`m sorry. Biff Tannen: I have your car towed all the way to your house and all you`ve got for me is *lite* beer?
[chuckles] Marvin Berry: [on the phone, as Marty plays "Johnny B. Goode"] Chuck. Chuck. It`s Marvin - your cousin, Marvin BERRY. You know that new sound you`re looking for? Well, listen to this.
[holds the receiver out] Marty McFly: [watching a Honeymooners episode in 1955] Hey, hey, I`ve seen this one. I`ve seen this one. This is a classic. This is, uh, where Ralph dresses up as a man from space.
Milton Baines: What do you mean, you`ve seen this? It`s brand new.
Marty McFly: Yeah, well, I saw it on a
[realizing]
Marty McFly: ... rerun.
Milton Baines: What`s a rerun?
Marty McFly: You`ll find out. [Stella Baines is Marty`s future grandmother]
Stella Baines: Marty, you look so familiar to me. Do I know your mother?
Marty McFly: [turning to look at Lorraine, his mother in the future] Yeah, I think maybe you do... [Marty sees the outside of the Hill Valley High School in 1955]
Marty McFly: Whoa... they really cleaned this place up. Looks brand-new.
[Marty and Doc walk toward the building]
Dr. Emmett Brown: Now, remember - according to my theory, you interfered with your parents first meeting. If they don`t meet, they won`t fall in love, they won`t get married and they won`t have kids. That`s why your older brother`s disappearing from that photograph. Your sister will follow, and unless you repair the damage, you`ll be next.
Marty McFly: Sounds pretty heavy.
Dr. Emmett Brown: Weight has nothing to do with it. [on the phone while all the clocks chime at once]
Dr. Emmett Brown: Are those my clocks I hear?
Marty McFly: Yeah! Uh, it`s 8 o`clock!
Dr. Emmett Brown: Perfect! My experiment worked! They`re all exactly 25 minutes slow.
Marty McFly: Wait a minute. Wait a minute. Doc... Are you telling me that it`s 8:25?
Dr. Emmett Brown: Precisely.
Marty McFly: Damn! I`m late for school!
[hangs up, grabs his skateboard and rushes out] Marty McFly: Do you know where Riverside Drive is?
Sam Baines: It`s on the other end of town, a block past Maple. East end of town.
Marty McFly: A block past Maple? That`s, uh, that`s John F. Kennedy Drive.
Sam Baines: Who the hell is John F. Kennedy? [on the phone]
Marty McFly: You know, Doc, you left your equipment on all week.
Dr. Emmett Brown: My equipment. That reminds me, Marty. You better not hook up to the amplifier. There`s a slight possibility of overload.
Marty McFly: Yeah, I`ll keep that in mind. Marty McFly: [introducing his band] All right.
[microphone feedback]
Marty McFly: We`re the, uh... we`re the Pinheads. Marty McFly: [to Uncle Joey as a baby, playing in his playpen] So you`re my Uncle Joey. Better get used to these bars, kid. George McFly: Do you really think I oughta swear?
Marty McFly: Yes, definitely. Goddamn it George, swear. Dr. Emmett Brown: Oh, my God, they found me, I don`t know how, but they found me. Run for it Marty.
Marty McFly: Who? Who?
Dr. Emmett Brown: Who do you think? The Libyans.
Marty McFly: Holy shit! Dr. Emmett Brown: [the DeLorean has just made the first time-jump] Ah! What did I tell you? 88 miles per hour! The temporal displacement occurred exactly 1:20am and zero seconds!
Marty McFly: Ah, Jesus Christ! Jesus Christ, Doc, you disintegrated Einstein!
Dr. Emmett Brown: Calm down, Marty, I didn`t disintegrate anything. The molecular structure of both Einstein and the car are completely intact.
Marty McFly: Then where the hell *are* they?
Dr. Emmett Brown: The appropriate question is, "*When* the hell are they?" You see, Einstein has just become the world`s first time-traveler! I sent him into the future. One minute into the future to be exact. And at precisely 1:21am and zero seconds, we shall catch up with him and the time machine. Younger Dr. Emmett Brown: [running out of the room] 1.21 gigawatts? 1.21 gigawatts? Great Scott!
Marty McFly: [following] What-what the hell is a gigawatt? [repeated Line]
Dr. Emmett Brown: Great Scott! Marty McFly: Marvin, you gotta play. See that`s where they kiss for the first time on the dance floor. And if there`s no music, they can`t dance. If they can`t dance, they can`t kiss. If they can`t kiss they can`t fall in love, and I`m history. [addressing the shocked expressions at the dance after playing a wild guitar solo]
Marty McFly: I guess you guys aren`t ready for that, yet. But your kids are gonna love it. [Marty and Doc observe George`s incompetence in 1955]
Dr. Emmett Brown: Which one`s your pop?
Marty McFly: [points him out] That`s him.
[they see him getting kicked around by other school bullies]
George McFly: [has a `kick me` sign on his back] Okay. Okay you guys. Ah-ha-ha-ha, very funny. You guys are being real mature.
Dr. Emmett Brown: Maybe you were adopted. Dr. Emmett Brown: Things have certainly changed around *here*. I remember when this was all farmland as far the eye could see. Old man Peabody owned all of this. He had this crazy idea about breeding pine trees. Dr. Emmett Brown: Marty, I`m sorry. But the only power source capable of generating 1.21 gigawatts of electricity is a bolt of lightning.
Marty McFly: [startled] What did you say?
Dr. Emmett Brown: A bolt of lighting. Unfortunately, you never know when or where it`s ever gonna strike.
Marty McFly: We do now.
[hands Doc the "Save the Clock Tower" flyer] Marty McFly: That`s Strickland? Jesus. Didn`t that guy ever have hair? Marty McFly: Calvin? Wh... Why do you keep calling me Calvin?
Lorraine Baines: Well, that is your name, isn`t it? Calvin Klein? It`s written all over your underwear. [thinking Marty is an alien]
Sherman Peabody: It`s already mutated into human form. Shoot it!
Old Man Peabody: [firing shotgun at barn] Take that, you mutated son of a bitch! Marty McFly: Hey Dad, George. Hey you on the bike. Biff Tannen: What are you looking at butthead?
Skinhead: Hey Biff, get a load of this guy`s life preserver. Dork thinks he`s gonna drown. Marty McFly: [heads for a door then stops] Oh... one other thing. If you guys ever have kids and one of them when he`s eight years old accidentally sets fire to the living room rug... go easy on him. [seeing a poster for the Enchantment Under the Sea dance]
Dr. Emmett Brown: Look. There`s a rhythmic ceremonial ritual coming up.
Marty McFly: Of course! The Enchantment Under the Sea dance! They`re supposed to go to this. That`s where they kiss for the first time.
Dr. Emmett Brown: All right, kid. You stick to your father like glue and make sure he takes her to that dance. Marty McFly: [acting cool] Do you mind if we... park... for a while?
Lorraine Baines: That`s a great idea. I`d love to park.
Marty McFly: Huh?
Lorraine Baines: Marty, I`m almost 18 years old. It`s not like I`ve never parked before.
Marty McFly: What?
Lorraine Baines: Marty, you seem so nervous. Is something wrong?
Marty McFly: [trying to maintain composure] No... No.
[Lorraine takes a sip from a liquor bottle]
Marty McFly: [grabbing the bottle from Lorraine] Lorraine, Lorraine, What are you doin`?
Lorraine Baines: [starting to laugh] I swiped it from the old lady`s liquor cabinet.
Marty McFly: Yeah, well, you shouldn`t drink.
Lorraine Baines: Why not?
Marty McFly: Because you - you might regret it later in life.
Lorraine Baines: Marty, don`t be such a square. Everybody who`s anybody drinks.
[Marty takes a sip from Lorraine`s bottle then spit-takes as he notices Lorraine lighting a cigarette]
Marty McFly: [nauseatingly] Geez! You smoke too?
Lorraine Baines: Marty, you`re beginning to sound just like my mother! [Marty wakes up in Lorraine`s bed]
Marty McFly: Mom... is that you?
Lorraine Baines: There, there now. Just relax.
[pats a damp cloth on Marty`s forehead]
Lorraine Baines: You`ve been asleep for almost nine hours now.
Marty McFly: I had a horrible nightmare. I dreamed that I went... back in time. It was terrible.
Lorraine Baines: Well... You`re safe and sound now, back in good old 1955.
Marty McFly: [opens his eyes wide] 1955? Dr. Emmett Brown: You`ve gotta get your father and mother to interact in some sort of social...
Marty McFly: Wh-what? You mean like a date?
Dr. Emmett Brown: Right.
Marty McFly: Well, what kind of date? I don`t know. What do kids do in the `50s?
Dr. Emmett Brown: Well, they`re your parents you must know them. What are their common interests? What do they like to do together?
Marty McFly: Nothing. [Recurring line in all three movies]
Biff Tannen: Hey, McFly. I thought I told you never to come in here.
Marty McFly: Time circuits on. Flux Capacitor... fluxxing. Engine running. All right!
[the engine stops suddenly] [Biff is waxing George`s car, it`s a silver BMW]
George McFly: Uh... now Biff, I want make sure that we get two coats of wax this time. Not just one.
Biff Tannen: Just finishing up the second coat now.
George McFly: Now Biff, don`t con me!
Biff Tannen: I-I`m-I`m sorry, Mr. McFly. I-I meant I was just starting on the second coat.
George McFly: Ahh... Biff. What a character. Always trying to get away with something. I`ve had to stay on top of Biff ever since High School. Although if it wasn`t for him...
Lorraine Baines: We never would have fallen in love.
George McFly: That`s right. Lorraine Baines: Will we ever see you again?
Marty McFly: I guarantee it. Skinhead: [throws Marty in the trunk of a car] That`s for messing up my hair!
Band Member: What the hell you doing to my car?
3-D: Hey, beat it, Spook. This don`t concern you.
Marvin Berry: [four additional band members get out of the car] Who you calling "Spook", Peckerwood?
Skinhead: Hey, hey, listen, guys. Look, I don`t wanna mess with no reefer addicts, okay?
Marvin Berry: Get home to your mama, boy.
3-D: Biff, help!
[the band members chase the boys] George McFly: Hey, you! Get your damn hands off her! Marty McFly: [sees that he has destroyed the huge speaker] Whoa... Rock `n` Roll. [Marty places headphones over his father`s ears and wakes him up by playing Van Halen music at full blast. George wakes up screaming - Marty pauses the music. George looks up to see Marty, who is unrecognizable because he is wearing a radiation suit]
George McFly: Who are you?
Marty McFly: [after giving him another earful of loud rock music] Silence Earthling! My name is Darth Vader. I am an extraterrestrial from the planet Vulcan!
[makes Live Long and Prosper sign with his hand] Lorraine Baines: Our first television set. Dad just picked it up today. Do you have a television?
Marty McFly: Well, yeah! You know we have... two of them.
Milton Baines: Wow! You must be rich!
Stella Baines: Oh, honey, he`s teasing you. Nobody has two television sets. Marty McFly: What about all that talk about screwing up future events, the space-time continuum?
Dr. Emmett Brown: Well, I figured, what the hell. [a switch actives Dr. Brown`s television and we see a news report]
TV news anchor: ...the Senate is expected to vote on this today. In other news, officials at the Pacific nuclear research facility have denied the rumor that a case of missing plutonium was, in fact, stolen from their vault two weeks ago. A Libyan terrorist group had claimed responsibility for the alleged theft. However, officials now attribute the discrepancy to a simple clerical error. The FBI, which is still investigating the matter, had no comment. Twelve wooden crates filled with cocaine washed ashore near Boca Raton, Florida, yesterday. Dr. Emmett Brown: [holding Marty`s video camera] No wonder your president has to be an actor, he`s gotta look good on television. Linda McFly: How am I supposed to ever meet anybody?
Lorraine Baines: Well, it`ll just happen. Like the way I met your father.
Linda McFly: That was so stupid! Grandpa hit him with the car!
Lorraine Baines: [wistfully] It was meant to be. Lorraine Baines: Anyway, your Grandpa hit him with the car, and brought him into the house. He seemed so helpless, like a little lost puppy. And my heart just went out to him.
Linda McFly: Yeah, Mom, we know. You`ve told us this story a million times. You felt sorry for him, so you decided to go with him to the Fish Under the Sea dance.
Lorraine Baines: No, no, it was the Enchantment Under the Sea dance. Dr. Emmett Brown: Let me show you my plan for sending you home. Please excuse the crudity of this model, I didn`t have time to build it to scale or to paint it.
[reveals intricate tabletop model of the town square]
Marty McFly: [impressed] It`s good. Mr. Strickland: Am I to understand you`re still hanging around with Dr. Emmett Brown, McFly?
[clicks with his mouth, gives Jennifer a tardy slip]
Mr. Strickland: Tardy slip for you, Miss Parker.
[gives Marty one, too]
Mr. Strickland: And one for you, McFly. I believe that makes 4 in a row. Now let me give you a nickel`s worth of free advice, young man. This so-called Dr. Brown is dangerous, he`s a real nutcase. You hang around with him, you`re gonna end up in big trouble.
Marty McFly: [smart-alecky] Oh, yes sir.
Mr. Strickland: [pushes Marty a little bit] You`ve got a real attitude problem, McFly. You`re a slacker! You remind me of your father when he went here. He was a slacker, too. High-School Band Audition Judge: Hold it, fellas. I`m afraid you`re just too darn loud. Next, please. Bring the next group, please. George McFly: [deleted scene]
[after looking at his watch George rushes to the phone booth and calls the operator]
George McFly: Uh, yeah operator, can you give me the time please?
[a few students come and block him in the phone booth with a trident]
George McFly: Hey! Get me out of here!
[the students laugh as they walk away]
George McFly: [Mr. Strickland walks by and sees George inside the phone booth] Mr. Strickland! Those students trapped me in here.
Mr. Strickland: See, this is what happens to slackers. Now do you understand?
[walks away]
George McFly: Yes. But, but Mr. Strickland you have to let me out of here! [Marty enters his house and sees Biff harrassing George]
Biff Tannen: I can`t believe you`d *loan* me your car without telling me it had a blind spot. I could`ve been killed!
George McFly: Now, now, Biff, now I never noticed that, uh, the car had any blind spot before when I would drive it. Hi, son.
Biff Tannen: But what are you, blind, McFly? It`s there. How else do you explain that wreck out there?
George McFly: Now, Biff, um, can I - Can I assume that your, uh, insurance is gonna pay for the damage?
Biff Tannen: My insurance? It`s your car. Your insurance should pay for it. I wanna know who`s gonna pay for this.
[shows his shirt]
Biff Tannen: I spilled beer all over when that car smashed into me. Who`s gonna pay my cleaning bill?
Sam Baines: Stella! Another one of these damn kids jumped in front of my car! Come on out here and help me take him in the house! Marty McFly: [whilst with his girlfriend] What happens to us in the future? Do we become assholes or something? [first lines]
1985 radio announcer: October is inventory time, so right now, Statler Toyota is making the best deals of the year on all 1985 model Toyotas. You won`t find a better car at a better price with better service anywhere in Hill Valley...
Dr. Emmett Brown: [Marty is showing Doc Brown the `flux capacitor` in the DeLorean time vehicle] It works. It works!
[grabs Marty]
Dr. Emmett Brown: I finally invent something that works!
Marty McFly: [quietly] You bet your ass it works. Marty McFly: Where are my pants?
Lorraine Baines: Over there, on my hope chest. Marty McFly: Since when can weathermen predict the weather? Let alone the future! Lorraine Baines: Marty, why are you so nervous?
Marty McFly: Lorraine, have you ever been in a situation where you knew you were supposed to act a certain way, but when you got there, you didn`t know if you could go through with it?
Lorraine Baines: You mean, like how you`re supposed to act on a first date?
Marty McFly: [stammering] Well, sort-sort of.
Lorraine Baines: I think I know what you`re talking about. You know what I do in those situations?
Marty McFly: What?
Lorraine Baines: I don`t worry.
[kisses him hard]
Lorraine Baines: [Lorraine stops and pulls back, Marty is freaking out]
Lorraine Baines: This is all wrong. I don`t know what it is, but when I`m kissing you, it`s like I`m kissing...my brother. I guess that`s doesn`t make any sense.
Marty McFly: Believe me, it makes perfect sense. Lorraine Baines: I`ve never seen purple underwear before! [after Marty caused him to crash into a manure truck]
Biff Tannen: [to his friends] I`m gonna get that son of a bitch.
Mark Dixon: Scram, McFly. I`m cuttin` in.Trivia Michael J. Fox had always been the first choice for Marty, but he was unavailable due to scheduling conflicts with his work on "Family Ties" (1982). Eric Stoltz was cast as Marty but he disagreed with the rest of the cast and crew about the tone of the film. After a few weeks of filming, Fox was asked to replace Stoltz. Fox worked out a schedule to fulfill his commitment to both projects. Every day during production, he drove straight to the movie set after taping of the show was finished every day and averaged about one or two hours of sleep. The bulk of the production was filmed from 6pm to 6am, with the daylight scenes filmed on weekends.
Musician Mark Campbell did all of Michael J. Fox`s singing. He`s credited as "Marty McFly". Michael J. Fox had to learn to skateboard for the film. Bob Gale explains that, to find a coordinator for the skateboarding scenes, he went to Venice beach and approached two skateboarders. One turned out to be European skate champ, Per Welinder, and the skater he was with became the stunt double for Eric Stoltz, but was recast when they recast the role of Marty McFly in order to match Michael J. Fox`s height. The "Back to the Future" series (including Back to the Future (1985), Back to the Future Part II (1989), and Back to the Future Part III (1990)) ranked at #9 on IGN`s Top 25 Movie Franchises of All Time (2006).
Was the top grossing release of 1985. The picture of Mayor Red Thomas on the election car in 1955 is set decorator Hal Gausman. Michael J. Fox is only ten days younger than Lea Thompson, the actress who plays his mother, and is almost three years older than his on-screen dad, Crispin Glover.
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# The time machine has been through several variations. In the first draft of the screenplay the time machine was a laser device that was housed in a room. At the end of the first draft the device was attached to a refrigerator and taken to an atomic bomb test. In the third draft of the film the time machine was a DeLorean, but in order to send Marty back to the future the vehicle had to drive the DeLorean into an atomic bomb test. The DeLorean Time Machine has "Good Year" tires. In the real world, "Goodyear" is one word. The DeLorean was deliberately selected for its general appearance and gull wing doors, in order to make it plausible that people in 1955 would presume it to be an alien spacecraft. #
# When the DeLorean goes back in time for the first time, it stops by crashing into a barn, which we soon learn belongs to a farmer named Peabody. We know this because as the DeLorean speeds off the property to escape being shot, we see buckshot shatter the mailbox bearing his name. Farmer Peabody`s son is named Sherman. Sherman was the name of the little boy time traveler in each of the "Peabody`s Improbable History" sections of Jay Ward`s cartoon show, "The Bullwinkle Show" (1961). The dog who "owned" Sherman and the time machine was named Mr. Peabody. In another reference to that show, the first character to travel through time is the dog, Einstein. The device originally considered for use as the time travel machine was a refrigerator. Director Robert Zemeckis said in an interview that the idea was scrapped because he and Steven Spielberg did not want children to start climbing into refrigerators and getting trapped inside. #
# According to the Universal Studios back lot tour, the clock tower is the same one that is seen in the movie To Kill a Mockingbird (1962). The area is referred to as Mockingbird Square, and it is a stone`s throw away from other famous filming locations, such as the exterior of the Psycho (1960) house and the "Red Sea".
The "Mr. Fusion Home Energy Converter", which is sitting on the DeLorean when Doc returns from the future, is made from (among other things) a Krups coffee grinder. #
# The script never called for Marty to repeatedly bang his head on the gull-wing door of the DeLorean; this was improvised during filming as the door mechanism became faulty. The school that served as Hill Valley High was Whittier High School in Whittier, California just outside of Los Angeles. It`s Richard Nixon`s alma mater. The Twin Pines Mall is, in fact, the Puente Hills Mall in City of Industry, California. Today, JCPenney is no longer an anchor there. In the film`s script the word "gigawatt" is spelled "jigowatt". Bob Gale and Robert Zemeckis had been to a science seminar and the speaker had pronounced it "jigowatt". The device in Doc Brown`s lab that Marty plugs his guitar into is labeled "CRM-114", which was the name of the message decoder on the B-52 in Dr. Strangelove or: How I Learned to Stop Worrying and Love the Bomb (1964), and the serial number of the Jupiter explorer in 2001: A Space Odyssey (1968), both directed by Stanley Kubrick. Also in A Clockwork Orange (1971) a `Serum 114` is used. A marketer hoped to get a prominent placement for California Raisins somewhere in the film. He suggested putting a bowl of raisins on a table at the Enchantment Under the Sea Dance. He had also told the California Raisins board that this would do for raisins what E.T.: The Extra-Terrestrial (1982) did for Reese`s Pieces. Bob Gale informed him that a bowl of raisins would photograph like a bowl of dirt. The only thing that appears in the film is Marty jumping over Red, sleeping on a bench that is advertising California Raisins. Wendie Jo Sperber, who played Linda McFly, was in fact three years older than Lea Thompson, who played her mother, and six years older than Crispin Glover, the actor who played her father. The newscaster on TV in the opening sequence is Deborah Harmon, who appeared in director Robert Zemeckis` Used Cars (1980). The license plate on a car outside the band audition (which says "FOR MARY") is a tribute to Mary T. Radford, personal assistant to second unit director Frank Marshall.
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# Doc Brown`s "man hanging off a clock face" is an homage to the famous scene in Harold Lloyd`s film, Safety Last! (1923). This movie is also alluded to in the opening sequence of the film: one of the many clocks is a Harold Lloyd alarm clock, and depicts Lloyd (Harold, not Christopher) hanging from the minute hand.
The mall where Marty McFly meets Doc Brown for their time travel experiment is called "Twin Pines Mall". Doc Brown comments that old farmer Peabody used to own all of the land, and he grew pines there. When Marty goes back in time, he runs over and knocks down a pine tree on the Peabody`s property. When he comes back to the mall at the end of the film, the sign at the mall identifies the mall as "Lone Pine Mall".
The dialogue where Lorraine says that when she grows up she`ll let her kids do anything they want was cut. That dialogue is re-inserted in Back to the Future Part II (1989) when the second Marty creeps past the car the first Marty and 1955 Lorraine are in. Lorraine states she`ll let her kids do anything, Marty replies, "I`d like to have that in writing."
Another deleted scene shows Marty peeking in on a class in 1955 and seeing his mother cheating on a test. The scene where Marty asks if he and Jennifer become "assholes" in the future was re-shot for television. When Doc Brown first sends Einstein "one minute" into the future, the time elapsed between when the DeLorean disappears and reappears is actually 1 minute 21 seconds, just as the reappearance occurred at 1:21am, and the flux capacitor required 1.21 jigowatts of electricity The DeLorean time machine is a licensed, registered vehicle in the state of California. While the vanity license plate used in the film says "OUTATIME", the DeLorean`s actual license plate reads 3CZV657 The chime of the Clock Tower in 1955 is intentionally the same as the chime in the 1960 movie The Time Machine (1960) based on the story by H.G. Wells.
The space alien gag first appeared in the screenplay`s third draft, with the primary difference being that it was to be done to Biff. When Robert Zemeckis was trying to sell the idea of this film, one of the companies he approached was Disney, who turned it down because they thought that the story of a mother falling in love with her son (albeit by a twist of time travel) was too risqué for a film under their banner. In fact, Disney was the only company to think the first was risqué. All other companies said that the film was not risqué enough, compared to other teen comedies at the time (e.g. Fast Times at Ridgemont High (1982), Revenge of the Nerds (1984), etc). Character name of Emmett comes from the word "time," spelled backwards and pronounced as syllables (em-it). Doc Brown`s middle initial is "L" but no name was ever actually given. Bob Gale, the film`s writer, was asked about this and gave him the name "Lathrop" (almost "portal" backwards - see above). A very brief scene was cut in-between the scenes of the McFly family dinner and Marty being woken up by Doc`s phone call. It involved Marty preparing to send his demo tape to a record company. Marty decides not to do it, and leaves the empty manila envelope on his desk. In a scene that remains in the film, he goes to breakfast with the manila envelope sealed, suggesting he decided to send it in. The house used for Doc Brown`s home is the Gamble House at 3 Westmoreland Ave., Pasadena, California. It was the home of the Gamble family until 1966, when it was turned over to the University of Southern California. It is now a historical museum. Earlier versions of the script had the time machine getting the required power from a nuclear test in the Nevada desert. The scene was considered too expensive to film, so the power source was changed to lightning. Canadian pop singer Corey Hart was asked to screen test for the part of Marty. #
# When Marty is trying to re-start the DeLorean in 1955 as he prepares to return to 1985, the car`s headlights flash the Morse Code for "SOS". The opening sequence with the ticking clocks is a direct lift from The Time Machine (1960). #
# The DeLorean used in the trilogy was a 1981 DMC-12 model, with a 6-cylinder PRV (Peugeot/Renault/Volvo) engine. The base for the nuclear-reactor was made from the hubcap from a Dodge Polaris. In the 2002 Special-Edition DVD of the BTTF Trilogy, it is incorrectly stated that the DeLorean had a standard 4-cylinder engine. C. Thomas Howell was considered to play the role of Marty McFly. Apparently Ronald Reagan was amused by Doc Brown`s disbelief that an actor like him could become president, so much so that he had the projectionist stop and replay the scene. He also seemed to enjoy it so much that he even made a direct reference of the film in his 1986 State of the Union address: "As they said in the film Back to the Future (1985), `Where we`re going, we don`t need roads.`" In the opening sequence, all of Doc`s clocks read 7:53 (25 minutes slow) except for one clock. It is on the floor next to the case of plutonium and it reads 8:20.
Alan Silvestri`s orchestra for the score of the film was the largest ever assembled at that time. When Lorraine follows Marty back to Doc`s house, she and Doc exchange an awkward greeting. This marks the only on-screen dialogue that Christopher Lloyd and Lea Thompson ever have, though they have appeared together in five movies and one TV movie. Billy Zane makes his first on-screen appearance in this film as "Match", one of Biff`s cronies. Melora Hardin was briefly cast as Jennifer when Claudia Wells initially dropped out due to scheduling conflicts, but was fired because she was taller than Michael J. Fox. In the original script, Marty`s playing rock and roll at the dance caused a riot which had to be broken up by police. This, combined with Marty accidentally tipping Doc off to the "secret ingredient" that made the time machine work (Coca-Cola) caused history to change. When Marty got back to the 1980s, he found that it was now the 1950s conception of that decade, with air-cars and what-not (all invented by Doc Brown and running on Coca-Cola). Marty also discovers that rock and roll was never invented, and he dedicates himself to starting the delayed cultural revolution. Meanwhile, his dad digs out the newspaper from the day after the dance and sees his son in the picture of the riot. The prefix "giga" was formerly more commonly pronounced as jiga, just as Doc Brown pronounces it. In the French version, when Marty wakes up in 1955 in his young mother`s bed, she calls him Pierre Cardin instead of Calvin Klein. In the Spanish and Italian versions, she calls him Levi Strauss. When this movie was previewed for a test audience, Industrial Light and Magic had not completed the final DeLorean-in-flight shot, and the last several minutes of the movie were previewed in black and white. It didn`t matter, as the audience roared in approval of the final scene anyway. Universal Pictures head Sid Sheinberg did not like the title "Back to the Future", insisting that nobody would see a movie with "future" in the title. In a memo to Robert Zemeckis, he said that the title should be changed to "Spaceman From Pluto", tying in with the Marty-as-alien jokes in the film, and also suggested further changes like replacing the "I`m Darth Vader from planet Vulcan" line with "I am a spaceman from Pluto!" Sid Sheinberg was persuaded to change his mind by a response memo from Steven Spielberg, which thanked him for sending a wonderful "joke memo", and that everyone got a kick out of it. Sid Sheinberg, too proud to admit he was serious, gave in to letting the film retain its title. `John Lithgow` and Jeff Goldblum were considered for the role of Doc Brown. The two red labels on the flux capacitor say "Disconnect Capacitor Drive Before Opening" (at the top) and "Shield Eyes From Light" When Marty pretends to be Darth Vader from the planet Vulcan, he plays a tape labeled "Van Halen" to scare George out of his sleep. It is an untitled Edward Van Halen original written for a movie called The Wild Life (1984) which featured Lea Thompson. Voted number 7 in channel 4`s (UK) "Greatest Family Films" The inspiration for the film largely stems from Bob Gale discovering his father`s high school yearbook and wondering whether he would have been friends with his father as a teenager. There are only about 32 special effects shots in the entire film. The production ultimately used three real DeLoreans. It took three hours in make-up to turn the 23-year-old Lea Thompson into the 47-year-old Lorraine. Playing at the Hill Valley cinema is Cattle Queen of Montana (1954) starring Barbara Stanwyck and Ronald Reagan; the latter of course was the President of the United States in 1985, the year the film was made. The "Tales From Space" comic book reappeared in at least two episodes of "Oliver Beene" (2003). Though the film Marty (1955) won the Academy Award for Best Picture in 1955, Robert Zemeckis and Bob Gale say in the DVD QandA session that they were not aware of this fact when they named their main character Marty. The coincidences with the film Marty (1955) are not limited to the name of the protagonist; note that in both films, the cafe-owner`s name is Lou. The lion statues in front of the Lyon Estates subdivisions were inspired by two like statues in the University City Loop in St. Louis, where writer Bob Gale grew up. #
# Sid Sheinberg, the head of Universal Pictures, requested many changes to be made throughout the movie. Most of these he got, such as having "Professor Brown" changed to "Doc Brown" and his chimp Shemp changed to a dog named Einstein. Marty`s mother`s name had previously been Meg and then Eileen, but Sid Sheinberg insisted that she be named Lorraine after his wife Lorraine Gary. Marty`s Guitars used throughout the movie: - Erlewine Chiquita ("big amp" sequence) - Ibanez black Strat copy (scenes of Marty`s band performing in the 80s) - Gibson 1963 ES-345TD (Marty performing at the dance) Doc`s phone number in 1955 is Klondike 54385. The letters "K" and "L" are both on the digit 5; thus, the number still begins with the 555- prefix, indicating a fictional number. When the McFly family is sitting down for dinner before Marty travels back in time (early in the movie), Michael J. Fox is seen drinking a can of a very prominent soda that he was a major endorser of back in the `80s and `90s. #
# Director Robert Zemeckis used the same beginning as The Time Machine (1960) as a homage to that film. Having the destination timeframe, current timeframe and recently departed timeframe readouts on the panel in red, green and yellow LEDs respectively was a nod to the time machine from that film having red, green and yellow lights on the top of its console.
Christopher Lloyd based his performance as Doc Brown on a combination of physicist Albert Einstein and conductor Leopold Stokowski. Leonard Nimoy was considered for the job as director before Robert Zemeckis took the job. Nimoy was unable to direct Back To The Future because he was starting work on the story for Star Trek IV: The Voyage Home (1986). According to the `Making of... `, in the original script , Marty was sent back to the year 1985, with the radiation of a nuclear bomb. But the scripted sequence was too expensive for the budget so the idea was scrapped. In the shot of the clock tower of 1985, after Doc Brown sent Marty into the future (with a flying-by helicopter), you can clearly see that the piece of the ledge under the clock dial is broken off. It was broken off by Doc Brown in 1955. In the movie Marty is sent back to 1955, which is the year that Albert Einstein died. Coincidentally, the dog in the movie was named Einstein. #
# When Marty is being judged at the band auditions at the beginning, the judge who stands up to say he is "just too darn loud" is Huey Lewis, whose song, ‘The Power of Love’ features on the movie’s soundtrack. Also, the song Marty auditions with is actually by Huey Lewis. "To be continued" was inserted into the end of the VHS release Back to the Future Part I, and was omitted from the 2002 DVD release. The sound effect used for the wind-up toy car in Doc`s demonstration to Marty was the same sound effect used for the time machine in the movie The Time Machine (1960).
In the French version, the clothes worn by Marty are not Calvin Klein, but Pierre Cardin. Oddly enough, Pierre Cardin`s first collection dates back 1953 (so may have been known even in the US), while Calvin Klein first business started in 1968. Co-writer Bob Gale confirmed that for wide shots, the wind during the storm at the Clock Tower was created by using a McBride, which was described by the writer as "basically a airplane engine on a huge cherry picker" and was placed a good fifty feet away from the actors. The McBride was so loud that all of the dialog said by actors Michael J. Fox and Christopher Lloyd had to be re-recorded later. However, the McBride also had an effect on Michael J. Fox`s health: while filming the sequence where Marty yells up at Doc at the Clock Tower to tell him about the future, he coughed up blood after filming those scenes. According to Back to the Future Part III (1990), the clock in the clock tower started running at 8:00 p.m. on September 5, 1885. The date is provided by the caption on the photograph that Doc Brown gives Marty at the end of Back to the Future Part III (1990). The time is provided by the mayor in Back to the Future Part III (1990), who starts it. The lightning strikes the clock tower at 10:04 p.m. on November 12, 1955. This means that the clock tower operated for exactly 70 years, 2 months, 24 days, 2 hours, and 4 minutes. `Ron Cobb (I)` was originally hired to design the DeLorean time machine but left for another project and was replaced by Andrew Probert. Marty McFly`s mimics famous rock stars during the later part of his performance during the school dance in 1955 when he starts playing heavy metal. His kicking of speakers (The Who), playing the guitar while lying down (Angus Young of AC/DC) and his solo (Jimi Hendrix/Eddie Van Halen). #
# Doc`s distinctive hunched-over look developed when the filmmakers realized the extreme difference in height between Christopher Lloyd and Michael J. Fox; Fox is 5`4 1/2" while Lloyd is 6`1". To compensate for the height difference, director `Robert Zemekis` used specific blocking where the two often stood far apart at different camera depths. For close ups, Lloyd would have to hunch over to appear in frame with Fox. The same approach was used in the two sequels. When Marty McFly leaves Doc Brown`s garage because he is late for school, co-writer Bob Gale mentioned in a commentary that the Garage was actually a flat put next to a Burger King restaurant in Burbank. As part of their agreement with Burger King, the studio wasn`t given any money from the restaurant for their cameo, but Burger King did allow the crew to film their scenes for free and allowed them to park there. Ranked #10 on the American Film Institute`s list of the 10 greatest films in the genre "Sci-Fi" in June 2008. When 1955 Doc Brown sees the videotape of himself explaining the need for 1.21 GW of power, he goes to an adjacent room and is seen talking to a picture frame that he refers to as "Tom". When he returns the picture to the mantle we can see that is was Thomas A. Edison he was speaking with. Also on the mantle, left to right are Sir Isaac Newton, Benjamin Franklin, (Thomas Edison), and Albert Einstein - presumably his inspiration for invention of a time machine. Executive producer Steven Spielberg initially had some reservations about hiring composer Alan Silvestri, having been unimpressed by Silvestri`s score for Romancing the Stone (1984). During a preview screening in which the film was accompanied by a temp track that only used part of Silvestri`s score, Spielberg commented to Robert Zemeckis that a particularly grand cue was `the sort of music the film needed`, unaware that it was indeed one of Silvestri`s cues. The Town theater, which Marty crashes the DeLorean into when he returns to 1985, was built for Gremlins (1984). In the original script, Doc Brown and Marty sell bootleg videos in order to fund the time machine. The theatre in 1955 is showing a double bill: "A Boy`s Life" (the working title for Steven Spielberg`s _E.T. the Extra-Terrestrial (1982)_), and "Watch the Skies" (the working title for Spielberg`s Close Encounters of the Third Kind (1977)). See also Gremlins (1984).
The man driving the jeep that Marty hangs on to at the beginning of the movie is stunt coordinator Walter Scott. Einstein, Doc Brown`s dog, was played by the same dog in each of the three Back To The Future films. After the film`s release, body kits were made for DeLoreans to make them look like the time machine. The Clocktower Plaza can also be seen in Bruce Almighty (2003). It appears in the scene when Bruce has answered everyone`s prayers and the local hockey team wins the Stanley Cup. When the riot ensues, Bruce goes outside, into the Clocktower Plaza.
There was an edit by the TV studios that screened `Back To The Future` in 2002 for the scene with the Lybians, for fear of offending Middle Eastern Americans after the recent 9/11 attack. The date Marty travels to, November 5th, is the same date that H.G. Wells travels forward to in Time After Time (1979). SPOILER: In the opening scene of the movie, as the camera pans across the clocks, one clock in the foreground has a small figure of Harold Lloyd hanging from the minute hand - a foreshadowing of the story`s climax, where Doc Brown clings to the face of the clock tower while trying to reconnect the cable. SPOILER: The cliff-hanger ending of the film was not originally intended to set up a sequel, but rather just as one last joke. It was admitted by the writer that had they originally intended the following two sequels, the ending would not have had Jennifer get into the car with Doc and Marty. This is why Jennifer was almost immediately knocked unconscious at the beginning of the second film. | ||
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