In 1985, Marty McFly, the anti-hero of Back to the Future, took the lead at the world box office. Today, the film is a cinema classic. However, the birth of this saga was full of twists and turns: a script rejected more than 40 times, the replacement of the main actor after four weeks of shooting, filming in a race against time…The team of the documentary Back to the Future, travel in time, American Dream & Rock'n'Roll went to meet those who designed the trilogy (Actors, screenwriter, production designer, performer of the cult song The Power of Love…) in the very places where she has been tour. More than a making-of, the documentary dissects a work that we thought we knew by heart. What makes Back to the Future the most iconic film of the 80s? Why does it continue to be passed down from generation to generation? What if its success could be explained by the brilliantly simple idea that the screenwriter, Bob Gale, had: traveling to the past by getting to know your own parents. If the saga has a positive tone, it is nevertheless much more complex than it seems. Behind the facade of a nice science fiction film, subjects like racial segregation, sexism or social inequalities appear implicitly. By affirming that anything is possible (even changing one's family), is the trilogy a celebration of the American dream? Or a critique of the excesses of capitalism prefiguring Trump's America? The protagonists of Back to the Future analyze here, each in their own way but all with relish, the success of this trilogy. What sensitive and secret chord did these films touch to resonate today more strongly than ever?
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