National Film Vault

FILM NOTES

Universal Pictures and Amblin Entertainment released Back to the Future Part II in November 1989, reuniting director Robert Zemeckis and writer Bob Gale with the cast of the original blockbuster. The sequel pushed the franchise into uncharted territory, depicting a vision of 2015 that became one of cinema's most referenced futures. Shot on 35mm, the film remains a landmark of late-eighties studio filmmaking.

This cell, titled Marty McFly Jr. and Marty McFly, captures Michael J. Fox in the dual roles he carried through the film's future sequences. The frames document the confrontation involving Marty McFly, Marty McFly Jr., and Griff Tannen, played by Thomas F. Wilson, with close framing on Fox and a shared moment between the two characters he portrays.