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Back To The Future 116 minutes, USA (1985), PG
(4.5)
Rating: 4.5 Stars
Our rating:
Average user rating (4.9 / 116 votes)
Christopher Lloyd and Michael J Fox in Back To The Future

Gleeful, thoroughly entertaining 1980s time travel yarn that stars Michael J Fox as a teen who heads back in time, only to muddle his own parents' courtship

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Back To The Future: Marty McFly (Fox) is a typical twentysomething Hollywood teenager (sic), whose quarrelling parents, vindictive schoolmaster and general angst give him cause for concern.

Befriending the local neighbourhood mad scientist, Dr Emmett L Brown (Christopher Lloyd), he becomes involved in a time travelling experiment that sends him back to the 50s, and the high school days of his parents...
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