Robert Zemeckis

Back to the Future Trilogy Robert Zemeckis

Triple bill of sci-fi comedies. In 'Back to the Future' (1985) teenager Marty McFly (Michael J. Fox) just wants to play electric guitar and date his girlfriend Jennifer (Claudia Wells).

He is also determined not to end up a loser in life like his parents. His father George (Crispin Glover) is a weak-willed failure, bullied at work by his former high school tormentor Biff Tannen (Thomas F. Wilson), while his mother Lorraine (Lea Thompson) is an alcoholic.

Marty's friend and mentor is the eccentric Doctor Emmet Brown (Christopher Lloyd), who has successfully invented his own time machine in the form of a plutonium-powered Delorean sports car. However, after Marty travels thirty years back in time, he discovers that he doesn't have enough fuel to return to 1985. After he accidentally prevents the first ever meeting between his parents, Marty's own future birth and present existence are placed in jeopardy...

In 'Back to the Future Part 2' (1989), accompanied by Doc Brown, Marty McFly must travel thirty years into the future to save his own children from going to jail. Meanwhile, the aged Biff Tannen steals the Delorean time machine to return to the Fifties and make his younger self rich, creating an alternative 1985 timeline in which Marty's father George has been murdered. Finally, 'Back to the Future Part 3' (1990) sees Marty go back in time to the Wild West in 1885 to rescue his friend Doc Brown, who he has discovered is due for a fatal showdown with one of bad guy Biff's nasty ancestors.

Meanwhile, the good Doc has fallen in love with a newly arrived schoolteacher Clara Clayton (Mary Steenburgen).