Back to the Future Page #4

Synopsis: In this 1980s sci-fi classic, small-town California teen Marty McFly (Michael J. Fox) is thrown back into the '50s when an experiment by his eccentric scientist friend Doc Brown (Christopher Lloyd) goes awry. Traveling through time in a modified DeLorean car, Marty encounters young versions of his parents (Crispin Glover, Lea Thompson), and must make sure that they fall in love or he'll cease to exist. Even more dauntingly, Marty has to return to his own time and save the life of Doc Brown.
Director(s): Robert Zemeckis
Production: Universal Pictures
  Won 1 Oscar. Another 19 wins & 25 nominations.
 
IMDB:
8.5
Metacritic:
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Rotten Tomatoes:
96%
PG
Year:
1985
116 min
$2,925,880
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Doc:
Good. Have a good trip Einstein, watch your head.

Marty:
You have this thing hooked up to the car?

Doc:
Watch this. Not me, the car, the car. My calculations are correct,

when this baby hits

eighty-eight miles per hour, your gonna see some serious sh*t. Watch

this, watch this. Ha,

what did I tell you, eighty-eight miles per hour. The temporal

displacement occurred at exactly

1:
20 a.m. and zero seconds.

Marty:
Hot, Jesus Christ, Doc. Jesus Christ, Doc, you disintegrated

Einstein.

Doc:
Calm down, Marty, I didn't disintegrate anything. The molecular

structure of Einstein and

the car are completely intact.

Marty:
Where the hell are they.

Doc:
The appropriate question is, weren't the hell are they. 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 exactly 1:21 a.m. we should cat h up with him and the time

machine.

Marty:
Wait a minute, wait a minute, Doc, are you telling me that you

built a time machine out of

a deloreon.

Doc:
The way I see it, if you're gonna build a time machine into a car

why not do it with some

style. Besides, the stainless, steel construction made the flux

dispersal- look out.

Marty:
What, what is it hot?

Doc:
It's cold, damn cold. Ha, ha, ha, Einstein, you little devil.

Einstein's clock is exactly one

minute behind mine, it's still ticking.

Marty:
He's alright.

Doc:
He's fine, and he's completely unaware that anything happened. As

far as he's concerned

the trip was instantaneous. That's why Einstein's watch is exactly one

minute behind mine. He

skipped over that minute to instantly arrive at this moment in time.

Come here, I'll show you

how it works. First, you turn the time circuits on. This readout tell

you where you're going, this

one tells you where you are, this one tells you where you were. You

imput the destination time

on this keypad. Say, you wanna see the signing of the declaration of

independence, or witness

the birth or Christ. Here's a red-letter date in the history of science,

November 5, 1955. Yes, of

course, November 5, 1955.

Marty:
What, I don't get what happened.

Doc:
That was the day I invented time travel. I remember it vividly. I

was standing on the edge

of my toilet hanging a clock, the porces was wet, I slipped, hit my head

on the edge of the sink.

And when I came to I had a revelation, a picture, a picture in my head,

a picture of this. This is

what makes time travel possible. The flux capacitor.

Marty:
The flux capacitor.

Doc:
It's taken me almost thirty years and my entire family fortune to

realize the vision of that

day, my god has it been that long. Things have certainly changed around

here. I remember

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