Back to the Future Part III - Definition and Overview

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 musicial 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.

See also:

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

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

• Back to the Future Part III (http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0099088/) at the Internet Movie Database