BACK TO THE FUTURE: A TVCU QUICKIE
What's a quickie? See this blog. From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia The Back to the Future franchise is an American science-fiction adventure comedy film series written and directed by Robert Zemeckis , produced by Bob Gale and Neil Canton for Amblin Entertainment , and distributed by Universal Pictures . The main plot follow the adventures of a high school student, Marty McFly ( Michael J. Fox ), and an eccentric scientist, Dr. Emmett L. Brown ( Christopher Lloyd ), as they use a DeLorean time machine to time travel to different periods in the history of Hill Valley, California . The first film was the highest-grossing film of 1985 and became an international phenomenon, leading to the second and third films, which were back-to-back film productions , released in 1989 and 1990, respectively. Though the sequels did not perform quite as well at the box office as the f...