Product Details

• Amazon Sales Rank: #3110 in VHS
• Released on: 1991-09-12
• Rating: PG (Parental Guidance Suggested)
• Formats: Closed-captioned, Color, NTSC
• Number of tapes: 1
• Running time: 118 minutes

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Shot back-to-back with Back to the Future II, this final chapter in the series is less hectic than that film and has the same sweet spirit of the first, albeit in a whole new setting. This time, Michael J. Fox's character ends up in the Old West of 1885, trying to prevent the death of mad scientist Christopher Lloyd at the hands of a gunman. Director Robert Zemeckis successfully blends exciting special effects with the traditions of a Western, and comes up with something original and fun. --Tom Keogh

Customer Reviews

A Great ending in the greatest fantasy trilogy ever made.
I'm a huge BTTF fan, owning all dvd box sets and cd soundtracks and now i will have the chance to own all three upgraded dvd BTTF individual releases which will have brand new features NOT available in the previous box sets so for me this is A MUST BUY.
BTTF is one of my top 10 films/trilogies of all time and i will buy all available dvd versions and blue ray and i really wanted a new trilogy with original cast happen some day...(if michael was not sick...damn...it could happen).

the most optimistic sequal
i like the optimism in this film.when the lightning strike the delorean and doc is gone,it was sad and depressing in the end of bttf 2 and marty was all sad and looks like he is stuck all alone in 1955...but then again there is the other doc of 1955 that can help him-all he has to do is explaining this doc all the story and make him help.

and ofcorse,the important sentence and idea of this film and whole the trilogy-that the future isnt written and it is what u make of it. if time travel was a reality we could really write the future and present as we want them,but since its not the case the least we can do is getting control on what we do now in order to build a better future for ourselves-being more assertive to get what we want,then we will achieve the success and we will have a beautiful future.we make our own destiny and not only the circumstances or luck.
plant good seeds now now for a blooming future!:)

a fitting end to a wonderful trilogy
A film by Robert Zemeckis

"Back to the Future Part III" is the third and concluding chapter to the "Back to the Future" trilogy. For many years this was my least favorite film in the trilogy, but watching it again for the first time in years I have new appreciation for it. "Back to the Future Part III" is a satisfying and worthy end to this trilogy.

At the end of the second movie the DeLorean is struck by lightening (which we already know provides the necessary 1.21 gigawatts of energy required for time travel) and Doc Brown (Christopher Lloyd) is sent somewhen in time. Marty (Michael J Fox) is stuck in 1955 Hill Valley, but just after Doc and the DeLorean disappears a letter arrives for Marty. The letter is from Doc and was written in 1885. It was left as the post office with the instructions to be delivered on that particular date at that particular time. The letter says that Doc is alive and well in 1885 and under no circumstances is Marty to try to go back and rescue him.

Marty returns to the 1955 Doc Brown and enlists his help to recover the DeLorean which was left in a cave for 70 years. While recovering the DeLorean Marty discovers a tombstone with Doc's name on it...and the date that Doc died was only a week after he wrote the letter! The tombstone reads "shot in the back by Buford Tannen (Thomas F Wilson) over a matter of $80". There is no way Marty is going to let this happen, so he puts gas in the DeLorean and travels back in time to 1885 to help Doc. Of course, if it was that simple, we wouldn't have much of a movie, so complications evolve. The DeLorean ruptures its gas line, so that it leaks gas and can no longer be driven under its own power. Part of the movie is Doc and Marty trying to get the DeLorean back up to 88 miles per hour, but there is also the matter of Buford "Mad Dog" Tannen who still intends to shoot Doc over that matter of eighty dollars...or will history change and will Marty's name on that tombstone? This final installment also introduces a love interest for Doc Brown in the person of Clara Clayton (Mary Steenburgen), the new school teacher with an interest in science.

This movie is much more of a straight forward action/adventure/comedy (whatever) movie. The time travel serves to get Marty in the past and back to the present, but there isn't as much playing around with time travel as there is in the second movie. I still think this might be the weakest of the movies, but it is a very fun ride. While this movie will never reach the "classic" status that I feel the first one will, this is a very enjoyable movie and is a fitting end to the trilogy. Good stuff.