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Future II opens with a deceptively simple errand to run. Doc Brown (Christopher Lloyd) wheels up to Marty McFly (Michael J. Fox) in that lovable time machine (a goofily customized DeLorean) with bad news: Marty's son -- not yet even a gleam in his father's eye -- is in trouble in the year 2015, and there is just enough time to save him from a life of crime. The dauntless duo, accompanied, of course, by Marty's girlfriend Jennifer (Elizabeth Shue), must head off to give future history a quick...
That brutal jerk Biff Tannen (Thomas F. Wilson) -- he who almost destroyed Marty's parents' lives in 1955, and from whom Marty rescued them in the earlier film -- has survived into the 21st century too. What's worse, on their voyage into the future Marty and Doc unwittingly provide him with the means to construct a dark alternate history beginning in 1955. Over its course, Biff has managed to turn pleasant little Hill Valley, Calif., into a hellish variant of Las Vegas, with himself as its czar. He has even contrived to make Marty's mother a widow and marry...
...Doc and Marty have no choice. They must return again to the scene of their first intervention in history, that high school dance that climaxed Future I. All along this story line, Marty has been encountering variations on himself, his progenitors and heirs. But when he is reinserted into this moment in time and starts to meet himself and the situations of the previous movie, Back to the Future II ceases to be a sequel. It becomes instead a kind of fugue, brilliantly varying and expanding on previously stated themes. And it accomplishes this while retaining its powerful narrative drive...
...into the movie industry using a hairbrush and a blow dryer. After coiffing Barbra Streisand and then moving in with her, the hairstyling tycoon produced her 1976 hit movie, A Star Is Born. Eventually the talkative Peters produced two other Streisand vehicles, The Main Event and What's Up, Doc?, as well as the hit comedy Caddyshack...
When Amy Wilentz first visited Haiti in 1986, she expected to find a land terrorized by President-for-Life Jean-Claude ("Baby Doc") Duvalier and his dreaded Tontons Macoutes. As it happened, she landed at Port-au-Prince Airport three days before Duvalier was hustled off to exile in France. Instead of a country bowed under tyranny, Wilentz found one struggling with the uncertainties of revolution...