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Is Lea Thompson Married? Inside the ‘Back to the Future’ Star’s Relationship With Howard Deutch


Lea Thompson has been married to director Howard Deutch since 1989. Closer takes a look at their relationship, including the way the two met and fell in love.

Lea and Howard met working on the 1987 teen rom-com Some Kind of Wonderful, in which the actress starred alongside Eric Stoltz and Mary Stuart Masterson. Around the same time Some Kind of Wonderful began production, the 1986 movie Howard the Duck — starring Lea alongside Jeffrey Jones and Tim Robbins — was released and became an epic flop. “Eric Stoltz, whom I had become friends with while working together on both Back to the Future[Stolz was the original Marty McFly] and The Wild Life, acting as a messenger for Howard, delivered the script to my house.

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