Back in Time

Back in Time (2015) is a documentary you can watch online on iFILM, directed by Jason Aron — 95 minutes spent with the cast and crew of the Back to the Future trilogy, thirty years after Marty McFly first hit 88 mph. Michael J. Fox, Christopher Lloyd, Lea Thompson, Robert Zemecis, Bob Gale, Steven Spielberg and composer Alan Silvestri all sit down to talk about why those three films stuck.

The film doesn't just revisit the plot. It gets into the strange details: the weeks of footage shot with Eric Stoltz before Fox replaced him, the specific sound design choices baked into the DeLorean scenes, what Silvestri was going for with that opening three-note motif. Fans from around the world explain what the trilogy meant to them at ten, at thirty, and again at fifty.

What comes through is a clear-eyed look at how a family blockbuster becomes something closer to mythology. A Canadian-British-American co-production that earns its runtime without nostalgia padding. Stream Back in Time (2015) online on iFILM.