Back to the Future Part III

Back to the Future Part III
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Directed by	Robert Zemeckis
Written by	Robert Zemeckis, Bob Gale
Produced by	Steven Spielberg
Starring	Michael J. Fox, Christopher Lloyd, Mary Steenburgen, Thomas F. Wilson, Lea Thompson
Distributed by	Universal Pictures
Running time	118 min.
Budget	$40,000,000 (estimated)

Back to the Future Part III is a movie starring Michael J. Fox that opened on 25 May 1990. It is the third part of a trilogy, following Back to the Future and Back to the Future Part II. It grossed $23 million in its first weekend of US release and $87.6 million altogether in US box office receipts – $243 million worldwide. It was not as successful as the second film but was not a disappointment either, especially given that it was released six months after the second film. On 17 December 2002 Universal Studios released Back to the Future Part III in a boxed set with the first two films on DVD and VHS which did extremely well when it was released. In the DVD widescreen edition there was a minor framing flaw that Universal has since corrected, available in sets manufactured after 21 February 2003. Back to the Future Part III celebrates its 15th anniversary on May 2005.

The movie won a Saturn Award for Alan Silvestri (composer) and Thomas F. Wilson and an AOL DVD Movies Premiere Award.

This third installment of the hugely popular series is set mainly in the Wild West of America in the year 1885. Back to the Future Part III ends with a freight train destroying the original time machine. The film ends with a message to all viewers that one's future is not written yet, but depends on what we make it to be.

Rock band ZZ Top recorded the track Doubleback for the end credits, which they also appeared as a cameo in the movie as a Wild West musical trio.

A year later, CBS began airing a Back to the Future animated series, which picks up 6 years after part III left off. Doc Brown and family have returned to the present and have rebuilt the DeLorean, which is now able to travel through space as well as time. The show contained live-action educational bumpers featuring Christopher Lloyd as Doc, although Dan Castellaneta provided the voice of the animated Doc.

Plot

Like Back to the Future Part II, Back to the Future Part III picks up where its predecessor left off. Doc Brown has been accidentally sent back to 1885. However, he is able to send Marty a letter, telling him where the time machine is. Marty works with the 1955 Doc, and they recover the De Lorean from a mine. Before leaving the mine, they discover the tombstone that shows where Doc was buried in 1885. Doc has been shot by Biff's great grandfather Buford "Mad Dog" Tannen.

They haul the car back to Doc's mansion and restore it to working order with new tires, and a series of vacuum tubes to imitate the integrated circuit chip. Instead of going back to 1985 as ordered, Marty goes back to 1885 to rescue his comrade. After surviving scares from Indians, a bear, Tannen, and even the cavalry, the two are set to return home... only for Marty to tell Doc that he broke the gasoline tank. They are out of gas and out of luck.

Doc devises a plan to push the DeLorean with a train locomotive, only to find himself infatuated with the town's schoolteacher Clara, and Tannen, initially intent on shooting Doc in the back, is now hellbent on killing Marty(that introduced himself as Clint Eastwood) in a shoot-out. Marty is able to defeat Tannen(using a trick from an Eastwood movie,A Fistful of Dollars) and persuade Doc to come back with him. However, Clara sneaks aboard the train as they attempt to push the De Lorean back to 1985. Clara slips on the outside of the train, but Doc saves her, and Marty is sent back to the future by himself after all. Marty thinks he will never see his old friend again, but Doc returns in a souped-up locomotive time machine to say his last goodbyes.

It took until the third movie, but finally, Marty is able to kiss Jennifer.

Cast and crew

• Michael J Fox as Marty McFly, Seamus McFly and "Clint Eastwood"
• Christopher Lloyd as Dr Emmett L Brown (aka Doc Brown)
• Mary Steenburgen as Clara Clayton
• Thomas F. Wilson as Buford 'Mad Dog' Tannen and Biff Tannen
• Lea Thompson as Maggie McFly and Lorraine Baines McFly
• James Tolkan as Marshal Strickland
• Elisabeth Shue as Jennifer Parker
• Jeffrey Weissman as George McFly
• Matt Clark as Chester, the bartender
• Dub Taylor as Saloon Old-Timer #1
• Harry Carey, Jr. as Saloon Old-Timer #2
• Pat Buttram as Saloon Old-Timer #3
• Robert Zemeckis: director/screenwriter
• Bob Gale: screenwriter
• Neil Canton: producer
• Bob Gale: producer
• Kathleen Kennedy: executive producer
• Frank Marshall: executive producer
• Steven Spielberg: executive producer
• Steve Starkey: associate producer

External links

• BTTF Online Fansite BTTF Online Fansite
• Back to the Future Part III at IMDb
• Back to the Future Message Board

See also

• Back to the Future timeline
• Back to the Future trilogy