CLIP FILM BACK TO THE FUTURE : USA 1985, Amblin Entertainment PRODUCTION : Robert Zemeckis DIRECTORS : Michael J. Fox (Marty McFly), Christopher Lloyd (Emmett “Doc” Brown), Lea Thompson (Lorraine McFly), Crispin Glover (George McFly), Thomas F. Wilson (Biff Tannen) STARRING SYNOPSIS In 1985, 17-year-old Marty McFly lives with his depressed alcoholic mother, Lorraine, his older , who are professional and social , and his father, George, who is bullied by his supervisor, Biff Tannen. One night, Marty meets his eccentric scientist friend, Emmett “Doc” Brown, in the parking lot of a shopping center. Doc shows Marty a time machine built from a modified DeLorean car, powered by plutonium. After Doc inputs the destination time of November 5, 1955, a group of Libyan terrorists suddenly arrive on a van and shoot Doc for having stolen the plutonium. Marty runs away in the DeLorean, activating time travel as soon as he reaches 88 miles per hour (142 km/h). Arriving in 1955, Marty discovers he has no plutonium to return. He then meets his teenage father and discovers Biff was bullying George even then; he also meets his young mother and her family. Marty then looks for the young Doc and convinces him to be from the future. Doc explains the only source capable of generating the power required for time travel in 1955 is a . Marty shows Doc a from the future that documents that a lightning bolt is going to strike the city hall tower on the following Saturday night. During his stay in 1955, Marty unwillingly interferes with his young parents’ lives; as a result, Lorraine has a on him. Doc realizes Marty’s actions are changing the future and his existence. To re-establish the right course of the events, Marty has to do all he can to make his parents kiss for the first time at the school ball. Marty encourages George to face Biff at the ball; finally, in order to defend Lorraine from Biff, who is stalking her, George knocks him down in front of her. Lorraine is surprised and relieved, and goes to the ball with George. By the end of the ball, they kiss for the first time, re-establishing the conditions for future events to happen. Doc and Marty then get the DeLorean car ready to send Marty back to 1985. The lightning strikes, sending Marty back to 1985, just while Doc is being shot. While Marty desperately cries at his side, Doc wakes up, revealing he had read the letter Marty had left him, and worn a . The next morning, Marty discovers his father is now a confident and successful science fiction author, his mother is fit and happy, his siblings are successful, and Biff works for his father. siblings failures lightning bolt leaflet crush bulletproof vest