Back to the Future (franchise) Back to the Future (franchise) 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 Steven Spielberg's Amblin Entertainment, and distributed by Universal Pictures. The franchise follows 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
Back to the Future The film ranked number 28 on "Entertainment Weekly"s list of the 50 Best High School Movies. In 2008, "Back to the Future" was voted the 23rd greatest film ever made by readers of "Empire". It was also placed on a similar list by "The New York Times", a list of 1000 movies. In January 2010, "Total Film" included the film on its list of "The 100 Greatest Movies of All Time". In 2007, the film was selected for preservation in the United States National Film Registry by the Library of Congress as being "culturally, historically, or aesthetically significant". In 2006,