Back to the
Future:
the story
You've come looking for the low down on one of histories
greatest fun-loving movies of all time. This page contains most
of the story of the trilogy. If you have not seen the movies yet DO
NOT READ ON!!! and run out to the video store and
rent these babies.
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movie. Each an everyone of them are worth listening to. But if
you have a slow connection to the web then I would suggest not
listening to them all at once. If you have a 28.8 modem
connection you should be fine. The faster the better, and if you
are a die hard BTTF fan then you should get everything. They
really are worth it.
Staring the incomparable Michael J. Fox, the enigmatic
Christopher Lloyd, the beautiful Lea Thompson, the memorable
Cripspin Glover, the gruff Thomas F. Wilson, and the lovely Mary
Steenburgen. Click on the BTTF you'd like to know about.
Back to the future I
Back to the future II
Back to the future III
- Back to the future, Part I
- Martin (Marty) Seamus McFly,
the Trilogy's hero, is just your ordinary teenager living
in Hill Valley who has a band, a girlfriend, Jennifer
Jane Parker, rides a
skateboard, and has a dream of one day spreading his
wings and flying away into celebrity bliss. Marty's best
friend Doctor Emmett Lanthrop Brown, a
wild-eyed scientist determined to create something that
can benefit society has spent the last thirty years
building an amazing machine capable of doing the
impossible. A phone call wakes Marty and brings him to
Twin Pine Mall. Doc unveils his time machine
(130K). The Delorean must go 88 MPH
(60K). Equipped with a JVC video camera, Marty witnesses
the first ever time travel trip by Doc's own dog,
Einstein. Doc is ecstatic
(130K). But his celebration comes to a quick end when the
Libyan terrorists come wanting their platinum back. You
see, Doc had to use it for the time machine (24K).
Not because it's nuclear
(87K). Those damn Libyans kill Doc and Marty jumps into
the Delorean and takes off . the Libyans chase him around
Twin Pines Mall
(32K). There doesn't seem to be anyway to get rid of
them, but then
(93K). Marty floors it. Unfortunately, the Delorean was
set to the year 1955, the year Doc first had the idea of
the flux capacitor
(103K). Well, long story short (too late), Marty gets
sent back to the year 1955 and the only hope he has to
return is the young Doc Emmet Brown. But, on the way
Marty saves his young father, George Douglas
McFly, from getting hit by his grandfathers car,
which he should have since it was the way his young
mother, Lorraine Baines,
who nurses Marty, which should've been George, and in
turn becomes infatuated with Marty, instead of George,
which send the entire space time continuum in a spiral
downward erasing the entire existence of the McFly family
(80K) *gasp*. Finally, after messing everything up, Marty
makes it to Doc's house. Naturally, since Marty shouldn't
even be born yet, Doc doesn't recognize him. There is
only one thing Marty can do to convince Doc that he is
from the future... he tells him about the flux capacitor
(23K). Doc finally lets Marty into his house and Marty
explains everything he knows about the Delorean time
machine... which isn't much. The most important info is
the need for 1.21 Gigawatts to power the flux capacitor.
Needless to say, that is a hard thing to come by
(40K). Marty doesn't get it
(26K). But alas, there is hope. At the beginning of the
movie, Marty was asked to donate money to keep the famous
town clock tower from being restored. And as his
contribution he is given a flier that states the day and
exact time the clock tower was hit (now, everyone knows
that a bolt of lightning has 1.21 gigawatts of power,
duh). So Marty is saved, kinda. He still has the problem
of his parents not getting together and thus erasing all
existence of Marty and his family all together. Not a
happy thought. Marty sets off to help his father, George,
go to the Enchanted Under the Sea dance where they are
suppose to kiss for the first time and fall in love. The
problem is, George is... well... a geek
(29K). What... He is! OK, he's a geek who writes science
fiction stories that are fantastic but he never shows it
to anyone. So Marty goes for the soft, creative spot
(71K). Now George is a changed man, with the incentive to
follow his heart and ask Lorraine to the dance
(35K). But he is stopped by Biff H. Tannon
(14K), the town bully and personal torturer of George
McFly
(44K). Marty rescues his father and Lorraine fall even
harder for her son (ewwww....not a pretty picture). So
Marty comes up with another plan. Marty will go with
Lorraine to the Enchantment Under the Sea dance and then
touch her on her.... and then George will come to her
rescue and say
(42K), "Hey you, get your damn hands off her."
Things go wrong once again and Biff interrupts Marty
before George can get there. So no it's George facing
Biff, who really is trying to touch her on her.... George
is about to turn away when he remembers something Marty
told him, "If you put your mind to it, you can
accomplish anything." George turn around and demands
that Biff lets Lorraine go. Biff grabs George's arm and
twists him backwards. Lorraine jumps out of the car and
demands that Biff lets George go. While Biff has his
attention on Lorraine, George decks Biff. (ALL
RIGHT!!!!!). George walks Lorraine to the dance and they
live happily ever after. Since Marty's job is done here,
and since he is late, he runs back to the Clock Tower and
meets Doc
(32K).
I won't tell you the rest just so you are surpassed. But since
there is a sequel, it's safe to say Marty gets back to his own
time..
- As a teaser at the end of the first movie (which
originally was only suppose to be just that) Doc comes
back from what looks like the future and informs Marty
that something must be done about his kids. Doc backs the
car up right outside of Marty's drive way
(77K). Doc flips a switch and the Delorean's tires turn
underneath the body of the vehicle and the Delorean
speeds off into the sky.
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- Back to the future, Part II
- In the spirit of the old serial movies, the sequel starts
off right where the first one left off. The Delorean
speeds off to the sky, but this time Biff witnesses the
sonic boom and fire trail as the car breaks through the
time barrier. Doc explains what happened to his children
and Marty agrees to help out. Marty's son, Marty Jr.,
will be persuaded by Griff Tannon, Biff's son, to commit
a crime and as a result is caught by the police. Marty's
daughter Marlene attempts to break Marty Jr. out of jail
but is caught also. Marty's job is to pretend to be Marty
Jr. and just say no. The plan doesn't go exactly as
planned but none the less, Marty succeeds in freeing his
son from Griff's poisonous hand. But all is not good in
the time continuum. The old Biff Tannon steals the time
machine while Marty and the Doc are busy and goes back to
1955 to give his younger counterpart a list of all the
winners of major sporting events for the next 45 years,
Gray's Sports Almanac. Doc and Marty return to 1985 to
find that the entire town and world has changed because
the Sports Almanac allowed Biff to become the richest man
in the world. Hill Valley, now known as Hell Valley.
Marty's father has been killed, Marty's mother has become
Biff's sex toy
(197K), and Doc has been committed. The only way for the
real Hill Valley to come back is to travel back to 1955
once again and stop Biff from getting the Sports Almanac.
Marty travels back to 1955 and comes desperately close to
messing up the other himself from fixing the mess up he
made the first time he traveled back to 1955 (um...huh?).
Anyway, finally after extremely close calls Marty gets
the Almanac and is ready to go back to the newly restored
1985. The problem is all of this took place on the same
night the lightning struck the clock tower and sent Marty
back to the future in the first movie. And lightning
always strikes twice. The time machine, while hovering in
air is struck by lightning and sent back to 1885. Doc
sends a letter to Marty and it arrives exactly after the
time machine vanished. Doc informs Marty that he is OK
and that he is living quietly in the Hill Valley of the
past. Instructions are given so that the 1955 counterpart
Doc can fix the Delorean and send Marty back to his own
time.
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- Back to the future, Part III
- Marty runs up to the Doc just as he sent the earlier
Marty back to 1955
(40K). The Delorean from 1885 is in an abandoned mine
shaft near a graveyard. At the graveyard, Marty stumbles
on Emmet Brown's grave. Doc of 1955 searches through Hill
Valley history and finds out how his older counterpart
dies. Buford Tannon shoot him in the
back over a matter of $80. Marty and Doc agree to go back
to the past and save Doc from this untimely fate. Marty
breaks through time once again and lands right in the
middle of an Indian/Calvery chase. An arrow pierces the
gas tank and all of the gas leaks out. Since the hover
system doesn't work and there is no gas, the time machine
can't get up to 88 MPH to bring the both of them back
home. Doc has a plan to use a locomotive to push the
Delorean up to 88 MPH. Doc saves the life of Clara
Clayton and falls in love at first site with
her. She returns the emotion but doesn't believe that he
is from the future. At the climatic train scene she
sneaks aboard the locomotive and Doc must stay behind to
save her. Marty travels back to 1985 and the Delorean is
destroyed by an on coming locomotive. Marty grieves for
his lost friend since he has no way of ever seeing Doc
again. Just as Marty is giving up on all hope, he is
flung to the ground by an ever familiar three sonic
booms. Doc stands in a locomotive that has been
retrofitted to handle time travel. He introduces Marty to
his new family, Claire (his wife), Jules
Aratuskanese (his son), and Vernes
Newton (his son). The train hover-converts and
flies off into the sky not unlike the ending of Back to
the future part I.
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