Back to the Future Themes

Imagine all the things you could do and the places you could go if you had the ability of time travel. You could check out Italy during the Renaissance. England during the Middle Ages. Walk amongst...

Usually, when a movie focuses on the theme of ambition, someone's going somewhere. Heading off to L.A. to become a world-famous actor or sailing off into space to discover a new frontier. But in Ba...

Considering Back to the Future is a time travel movie, fate and free will are naturally going to come into play. Are we all set on a predetermined path, which no amount of meddling can alter? Appar...

This one goes hand in hand with "Ambition." Before the heroes of Back to the Future can achieve their goals, they have to suffer some pretty oppressive defeats, and we get a front row seat to see i...

You knew this was in here. Back to the Future asks all sorts of questions about time: is time linear? Can we create an alternate reality by affecting the past? What happens if we disrupt the space-...

Few characters in Hollywood history have undergone such a complete personality makeover as Biff Tannen, who goes from pushy meathead to whimpering whipping boy. Or George McFly, who emerges from hi...