A recent installment of Open Mic Adventures inspired this pick, which I knew would show up on my list somewhere. I’m not sure where I intended to put it, but I knew it would be in the top five; indeed, it should probably be higher, but it’s fresh on my mind, so I’m putting it at #5.
The film is one of the enduring classics of the 1980s. It hit theaters on my half-birthday—3 July 1985—and was ever-present during my childhood on VHS (recorded from television broadcasts, of course). The film franchise even inspired the name of my old brass quintet, Brass to the Future.
The flick, of course, is Robert Zemeckis’s science-fiction classic Back to the Future (1985).
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