Robert Zemeckis's 1985 comedy science fiction film about a teenager accidentally sent back to 1955 — one of the highest-grossing films of its decade, notable for its tight screenplay, perfect casting, and inventive time travel logic.
Creates the most perfectly constructed time travel comedy — Back to the Future's screenplay (every detail planted in act one pays off in acts two and three) is considered one of the best constructed scripts in Hollywood history; it popularized the DeLorean and the concept of the grandfather paradox.
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