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    Back to the Future
    Reviewed by Ruth Grossman

    Marty McFly in his yellow radiation suit (it looks kind of like a raincoat) and mask goes to George McFly's house and puts headphones on sleeping George. George wakes up with a start as Marty turns on the cassette. Then he stops the music.

    " I am Darth Vader from the plant Vulcan," Marty says in a Darth Vadery voice.

    He looks like the alien on the cover of George's science fiction magazine. Marty tells him to ask Lorraine to the Enchantment Under the Sea Dance or else he'll melt his brains. George is scared out of his wits and agrees.

    It is 1955 in Back to the Future, and Marty has gone back in time 30 years and needs to get George and Lorraine (his parents) together or else he will never be born. This wonderful comedy is directed by Robert Zemeckis and was produced at MCA Universal studio.

    This movie starts in 1985 and travles back to 1955. In 1985 Marty McFly (Michael J. Fox) is a high school kid whose best friend is Doctor Emmett Brown (Christopher Lloyd). Doc has invented a time machine and uses Einstein the dog (played by Einstein the dog) to test it out. The machine works. Doc then sets it to 1955 and puts the fuel in (plutonium). He starts to get in the machine, but realizes that he forgot to bring extra plutonium. He gets out to get some--but is sighted by the terrorists that he stole the plutonium from and they shoot him. Marty gets in the car (time machine) and the terrorists begin to chase him past the speed of 88 mph - - the speed at which the car turns into a time machine!

    Marty finds himself in 1955, where, by saving his now teenage father George McFly (Crispin Glover) from being run over by a car, he mixes up his parent's first meeting. Instead his mother Lorraine Baines (Lea Thompson) falls in love with him. Marty has to right the relationship and save George from being pounded by Biff Tanen (Thomas F. Wilson) and his gang.

    Back to the Future is a very good and funny movie for all ages. I would definitely watch again, but not in a theater. They're too loud.