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40 Years Ago, Back To The Future's Epic Box Office Run Sparked An Everlasting Cinematic Legacy

Back to the Future conquered the 1985 summer box office and hung around in the top 10 all year, but its legacy has endured far longer.

Marty then finds himself in a time-shattering chain of events that runs the risk of erasing himself from existence unless he can ensure that his future parents wind up together. "Eric got fired a couple of days before he was just going to get his head pounded in because in the scene in the cafeteria ... he was driving the heels of his hands hard into my collarbones, I mean really pushing me." Though Hollywood wasn't quite as franchise-obsessed in the mid-'80s as it is now, success on that scale still pretty much always means a sequel is going to happen, if it makes any sort of sense to do one.

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