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 their 1985 phenomenon. The sequel pushed further into speculative territory, imagining 2015 as a world of hoverboards, self-lacing shoes, and domestic automation. It remains a touchstone of late-1980s studio filmmaking and a genuine artifact of how one era imagined the near future.

The confirmed title George and Lorraine places this cell inside the McFly family home as it exists in 2015. Marlene McFly, played by Michael J. Fox, appears near the Master Cook unit in the kitchen and living area, followed by frames showing Marty McFly Sr., also played by Fox, alongside Lorraine Baines McFly, portrayed by Lea Thompson, with the household staircase visible in the concluding frames of the sequence.