Back to the Future was released without fanfare in 1985 and became one of the most successful and iconic films of the decade. Robert Zemeckis (who had put himself on the map with the enjoyable 1984 adventure romp Romancing the Stone) wrote the film with Bob Gale. They conjured an irresistible mixture of nostalgia, satire, comedy, action and romance and made one of the best films of the 1980s. Despite a bizarre Oedipal theme (not too many mainstream blockbusters flirt with incest!) and a sometimes troubled production, Back to the Future took a clever premise (what if you met your parents when they were teenagers at school?) and transformed it into a calculated, intelligent, sassy, funny and charming fairy tale that repays the viewer time and again.
Revisit this classic film and its sequels in Back to the Future - The Trilogy...
Revisit this classic film and its sequels in Back to the Future - The Trilogy...
