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Name: Back to the Future
Director: Robert Zemeckis
Genre: adventure, comedy, science-fiction
Released: 1985
Duration: 1 h 56 min
Rating: 8.5

Back to the Future has an iRankMovies score of 87.5/100, based on a weighted combination of IMDb (×3.0), Rotten Tomatoes (×2.0), Metacritic (×1.5), and TMDb (×1.0).

Back to the Future (1985)

He was never in time for his classes... He wasn't in time for his dinner... Then one day... he wasn't in his time at all.

Release:1985

Runtime:1h 56m

Country:United States

Director:Robert Zemeckis

Language:English

Genre

AdventureComedyScience Fiction

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Keywords

Flying CarRace Against TimeClock TowerCar RaceLightningGuitarInventorJourney In The Past

iRank88

Back to the Future rating: IMDb, Rotten Tomatoes and Metacritic

IMDb8.5/10· 1.5M votes

Rotten Tomatoes93%

Metacritic88%

TMDb8.328/10· 22K votes

With 93% on Rotten Tomatoes, backed by 8.5/10 on IMDb and 88/100 on Metacritic, critical reception of this film has been very positive.

About Back to the Future

Eighties teenager Marty McFly is accidentally sent back in time to 1955, inadvertently disrupting his parents' first meeting and attracting his mother's romantic interest. Marty must repair the damage to history by rekindling his parents' romance and - with the help of his eccentric inventor friend Doc Brown - return to 1985.

Cast of Back to the Future

Michael J. Fox
as Marty McFly
Christopher Lloyd
as Emmett Brown
Crispin Glover
as George McFly
Lea Thompson
as Lorraine Baines
Claudia Wells
as Jennifer Parker
Thomas F. Wilson
as Biff Tannen
Marc McClure
as Dave McFly
Wendie Jo Sperber
as Linda McFly
George DiCenzo
as Sam Baines
Frances Lee McCain
as Stella Baines
James Tolkan
as Mr. Strickland
J.J. Cohen
as Skinhead

Back to the Future facts

Budget: $19M
Box office: $381.1M
Collection: Back to the Future Collection

Our take on Back to the Future

Zemeckis's 1985 favourite sends teenager Marty McFly back to 1955 in a DeLorean time machine, where he must reunite his own parents before he's erased from existence. Witty, ingenious and bursting with charm, it's the blueprint for the perfect crowd-pleasing adventure. If its inventive fun and feel-good energy delighted you, seek out time-travel comedies and family sci-fi adventures built on clockwork plotting and heart.

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Audience opinions

What the audience liked

•Zemeckis balances time-travel logic with heart and perfectly-timed comedic sequences
•1950s setting captures nostalgic Americana while satirizing period attitudes effectively
•Character relationships feel genuine beneath the fantastical sci-fi premise and action

What the audience disliked

•Bullying subplot gets resolved quickly without meaningful consequence or growth
•Time-travel rules occasionally bend to serve plot convenience over consistency

Saga: Back to the Future Collection