# Retour vers le futur (1985)

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**Original title**: *Back to the Future*
**Runtime**: 116 min
**Genres**: Adventure, Comedy, Science Fiction
**Directed by**: Robert Zemeckis
**Written by**: Robert Zemeckis, Bob Gale
**Starring**: Michael J. Fox, Christopher Lloyd, Crispin Glover, Lea Thompson, Claudia Wells, Thomas F. Wilson

> *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.*

## Synopsis (in-house rewrite)

Hill Valley, autumn, a DeLorean revs. A teenager crashes a high school dance, his parents' first meeting in jeopardy, a time-traveling car his only hope. Zemeckis balances nostalgia with a perfectly paced adventure.

**Mood tags**: comfort-cult, bittersweet, cozy, playful

**Critic & audience scores**: IMDb 8.5/10 (1450794 users) · Rotten Tomatoes 93% · Metacritic 88/100

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