Back to the Future (PG)

Marty McFly's life is a dump. His father, George, is constantly bullied by his supervisor Biff Tannen and his mother, Lorraine, is an overweight alcoholic. One day, Marty gets a call from his scientist friend Dr. "Doc" Emmet Brown telling Marty to meet him at Twin Pines Mall at 1:15 AM where Doc unveils a time machine that runs off of plutonium built into a DeLorean and demonstrates it to Marty. Marty accidentally activates the time machine, sending him back to 1955 where he accidentally gets in the way of his teenage parents meeting. Marty must find a way to convince Doc that he is from the future, reunite his parents, and ultimately get back to the future.

Cast: Marty McFly - Michael J Fox

        Dr. Emmett Brown - Christopher Lloyd

        Lorraine Baines - Lea Thompson

        George McFly - Crispin Glover

        Biff Tannen - Tom Wilson

Director: Robert Zemeckis

Worldwide Box Office: $383,336,762 million

Trivia: In 2010, during a cast reunion, Michael J. Fox said that strangers still call him "McFly!" constantly. Fox said that the most remarkable instance was when he was in a remote jungle in the South Asian country Bhutan, located between China and India in the eastern Himalayas. A group of Buddhist monks passed him and one of them looked at Fox and said, "Marty McFly!"

The script was rejected 44 times before it was finally green-lit.

The inspiration for the film largely stems from Bob Gale discovering his father's high school yearbook and wondering whether he would have been friends with his father as a teenager. Gale also said that if he had the chance to go back in time, he would really go back and see if they would have been friends.

According to Bob Gale, Johnny Depp auditioned for the role of Marty McFly: "I looked through the notes, and I said, 'Geez, I don't even remember that we read Johnny Depp!' So whatever he did, it wasn't all that memorable, I guess!"

Lulu's verdict: One of the greatest time travelling movie's ever created all bundled up in this funny, colourful, well scripted and brilliantly acted 2 hours. Each character is perfectly cast and is a real piece of cinema history.