Does the dog die?
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Back to the Future
Movie • 1985 • Adventure
ReportEighties teenager Marty McFly is accidentally sent back in time to 1955, inadvertently disrupting his parents' first meeting and attracting his mother's romantic interest. Marty must repair the damage to history by rekindling his parents' romance and - with the help of his eccentric inventor friend Doc Brown - return to 1985.
This movie contains 22 potentially triggering events.
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ProfessorProcyon
There's a scene where a dog is sent back in time and is briefly believed to have disintegrated, but he later returns completely unharmed.
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Is someone stalked?
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Jadespade
George tries to watch Lorraine through her bedroom window.
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Is there domestic violence?
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Does the abused become the abuser?
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LJConrad
Not exactly but there is a joke about a toddler crying whenever he is let out of his crib so he is left in there all the time. We know he grows up to be in jail.
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Addiction
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LJConrad
The band are smoking cannabis in their car which is referred to in the dialogue, but we only see smoke.
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Is there addiction?
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Jadespade
Lorraine is an alcoholic in the beginning.
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Does someone abuse alcohol?
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Jadespade
Marty's mom in the beginning has a drinking problem.
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Are animals abused?
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NotAgainAllison
A dog is used as a test subject but is okay
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Assault
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Is someone restrained?
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Not with ropes, but a character is physically held down
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StaySafeFriends
The main character is sexually harrased by another character, which makes him visibly uncomfortable throughout the movie. Later there is an attempted rape in a car, but it is interrupted and the character is saved.
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forufourfour
Biff attempts to assault Lorraine in the car before the dance. It is not graphic and he is stopped, but we see her struggling and it goes on for a while.
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Bodily Harm
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Are any hands damaged?
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forufourfour
The band leader cuts his hand while helping Marty out of the trunk of his car. It is not serious or graphic, but is bad enough that he can't play guitar that evening.
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Is someone buried alive?
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LJConrad
No, but a car does get an entire truck load of manure poured on to it, which does temporarily bury the four occupants, and the soil goes in their mouths.
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Does someone become unconscious?
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forufourfour
Marty hits his head on the ground when hit by a car. It cuts straight to him waking up several hours later.
George knocks Biff unconscious before the dance and he and Lorraine leave him on the ground. Other students come to his aid.
Upon returning to 1985 we see Doc seemingly shot by terrorists again - this time he is knocked out momentarily before coming round.
George knocks Biff unconscious before the dance and he and Lorraine leave him on the ground. Other students come to his aid.
Upon returning to 1985 we see Doc seemingly shot by terrorists again - this time he is knocked out momentarily before coming round.
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Does someone break a bone?
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Jadespade
No, but Biff almost breaks George's arm at one point.
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Is there finger/toe mutilation?
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Harlbior
One of the jazz players cuts his hand while trying to open the trunk of their car after Marty gets locked inside.
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Children
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Does a kid die?
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ProfessorProcyon
However, Marty and his siblings are faced with the threat of never having existed, and in one scene Marty nearly fades from existence. He's very quickly brought back, though.
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Death
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Disability
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Drugs/Alcohol
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Family
Is someone kidnapped?
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LJConrad
Biff's goons bodily grab Marty and run off with him, locking him in the boot of a car.
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Large-scale Violence
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Law Enforcement
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LGBTQ+
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Medical
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Mental Health
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Does someone have a mental illness?
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SimpleHuman
A newspaper mentions a man declared legally insane and put in a mental ward. No other mental illness is shown
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Does someone attempt suicide?
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Does someone say "I'll kill myself"?
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Is there a claustrophobic scene?
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LJConrad
Marty is locked in the boot of a car. We only see this from the outside.
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Does someone die by suicide?
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Noxious
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Is there obscene language/gestures?
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FadingShadows
Not that obscene, but Doc says the phrase "serious shit." Marty also says "Holy shit!"
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Are there flashing lights or images?
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SpritePepsi
Whenever the dolorian travels into time there are flashes of light and loud sound effects, there is a lightning storm at one point as well where there are some flashing lights
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Paranoia
Is someone watched without knowing?
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forufourfour
George watches Lorraine changing through her bedroom window
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Pregnancy
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Are there babies or unborn children?
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LJConrad
A baby/toddler in a crib in an early scene.
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Prejudice
Are there fat jokes?
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LJConrad
Not exactly but Lorraine is shown to be heavier at the start when she is a depressed alcoholic and slim and fit at the end when she is happy, and Marty notes how good she looks, which does imply that having weight is negative.
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Is there hate speech?
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Anonymous
Most of the movie is set in the 50s and has a bit of racism in it. as i can recall right now there is about two racist sentences in the entire movie
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Is a minority is misrepresented?
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forufourfour
The only Arab characters in the movie are terrorists. They're only in one scene (the end of which is seen again towards the end of the film.)
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Is there ableist language or behavior?
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LJConrad
Lorraine's father calls Marty an idiot and tells Lorraine if she ever has an kid who acts that way, he will disown her.
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Are there n-words?
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ProfessorProcyon
The n-word is not said, but it should be noted that a rather outdated derogatory term for POC is briefly said in one scene.
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Race
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Relationships
Is there a large age gap?
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SiRenfield
A teenage girl unknowingly tries to hook up with her son from the future (they’re the same age due to time travel though) but nothing more than that and the plot hinges on trying to prevent it from happening
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Religious
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Sex
Is there sexual content?
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Jadespade
There are references to high school students having sex. Biff forces himself on Lorraine at one point but it is mostly unseen and stopped by another character.
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Jadespade
Unintentionally. When Marty goes back in time and meets his mom as a teenager, she falls for him, flirts with him, and kisses him at one point. Marty is visibly uncomfortable with this.
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Sexism
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Sickness
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Social
Is someone homeless?
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LJConrad
We see a homeless man on a bench at the end.
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Spoiler
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Does it have a sad ending?
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ProfessorProcyon
Though it does get very tense at some points, to the point in which one may be worried that it will end on a sad note.
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Vehicular
Does a car crash?
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AWJ1
The DeLorean crashes into a barn, and again into a church, but the car is not damaged and Marty survives. Additionally, the Libyan terrorists crash their van into a kiosk. Biff wrecks a car in the beginning. The wrecked car is shown, but not the crash itself. In 1955, Biff crashes his car into a manure truck.
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Does a car honk or tires screech?
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LJConrad
When Marty arrives in 1955, he walks in front of a car that honks at him. Later on he is hit by another car which screeches to a halt. There are several car chase scenes which include tire screeches.
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Is someone hit by a car?
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Sassah122
Yes, but they suffer no serious damage and no blood is shown.
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Violence
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Is there blood/gore?
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SpritePepsi
Characters suffer injury throughout the film, but most of the time there is no blood- only in minor instances. In the beginning of the film, a man gets shot but there is no blood. Later on, in the past, Doc has a small scabby-looking wound on his head from hitting it on a sink. And during the dance scenes, one of the musicians slices his hand (though the extent that the wound is shown is just a bloody patch on a gauze wrap).
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Is there gun violence?
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SpritePepsi
(spoiler free) In the beginning of the film, a character is shot (repeatedly). Guns do not appear throughout the rest of the film-until the end when this beginning scene is revisited.
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