Back to the Future

In 1985, teenager Marty McFly lives in Hill Valley, California, with his depressed alcoholic mother, Lorraine; his older siblings, who are professional and social failures; and his meek father, George, who is bullied by his supervisor, Biff Tannen. After Marty's band fails a music audition, he confides in his girlfriend, Jennifer Parker, that he fears becoming like his parents despite his ambitions. Marty meets his eccentric scientist friend, Emmett "Doc" Brown, in the Twin Pines mall parking lot, where Doc unveils a time machine built from a modified DeLorean, powered by plutonium he swindled from Libyan terrorists. When reaching 88 miles per hour, Marty inadvertently activates time travel and arrives in 1955.