Back to the Future is a 1985 American
science-fiction adventure comedy film directed by
Robert Zemeckis, written by Zemeckis and
Bob Gale, produced by Gale and
Neil Canton, and starring
Michael J. Fox,
Christopher Lloyd,
Lea Thompson,
Crispin Glover and
Thomas F. Wilson.
Steven Spielberg,
Kathleen Kennedy, and
Frank Marshall served as executive producers. In the film, teenager
Marty McFly (Fox) is sent
back in time to 1955, where he meets his future parents in high school and accidentally becomes his mother's romantic interest. Marty must repair the damage to history by causing his parents-to-be to fall in love, and with the help of friend, eccentric scientist
Dr. Emmett "Doc" Brown (Lloyd), he must find a way to return to 1985.