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Sex & Nudity

  • Mild sexual references.
  • A boy watches a girl from her window changing clothes,her bra and panties are shown.
  • Biff looks down Lorraine's dress to look at her breasts.

Violence & Gore

  • A teen man tries to attempts to sexually assault a teen girl in a car but a group of other men stop him.
  • A character injures his hand in one scene. He is later seen with a bloodied bandage around it.
  • In two separate scenes, a running gag Biff taps George on the head asking, "Hello. Anybody home?" and gets him to the look at the floor (shoe's untied) and then slaps him in the face.
  • During the lunch hall scene with Lorraine and Biff, Lorraine slaps Biff across the face and tells him to shut his dirty mouth.

Profanity

  • "God", "jesus", "christ", "hell", "damn", "ass", "bitch", "bastard" and "shit" is used. 3 of "goddamned".
  • The word "Dammit" is used throughout the film.
  • Some moderate language: 4 or 5 uses of "shit", 3 uses of "son of a bitch", 2 uses of "goddamn" and 1 uses of "asshole".
  • Very common profanity, with phrases such as, "you son of a bitch!" "holy shit!" "Jesus Christ!" "Oh my god!" "Goddammit!" "You filthy bastard!"

Alcohol, Drugs & Smoking

  • When Lorraine and Marty are in the car, Lorraine drinks Alcohol at the age of 17. Marty tells her stop and then takes a sip. He spits it out when Lorraine starts to smoke a cigarette.
  • Mild Alcohol and reference, and a couple of smoking scenes.
  • The mother is originally shown as an alcoholic, drinking vodka around the dinner table with her family. It's very brief.
  • At age 17, Lorraine drinks alcohol and starts to smoke a cigarette, but she is stopped on both occasions by Marty. He takes a sip of the alcohol but then spits it out.
  • The members of the band playing at the dance are seen smoking outside of the high school and are called "reefer addicts" by another character.

Frightening & Intense Scenes

  • There's a mild amount of suspenseful music in the movie and a few threats scenes.

Spoilers

The Parents Guide items below may give away important plot points.

Sex & Nudity

  • Biff rapes Lorraine in a car and has his hand up her dress.

Violence & Gore

  • Biff nearly breaks George's arm near the end of the movie.
  • Just before Marty commandeers the De Lorean and accidentally travels back in time, he witnesses Doc being gunned down by terrorists with a machine gun. This scene is bloodless, however, and a similar later of this scene later reveals that Doc is wearing a bulletproof vest and was thus unharmed. Parents may need to explain that Doc was probably not wearing the vest during the first occurrence of this event, but that Marty's actions changed history, resulting in him taking this precaution.
  • One of sequence, is the suspenseful car and skateboard chases scene. Marty punch Biff and fell on the table, and push his gang to get out of the way. Marty take his boy skateboard to let him know to give it back, and Biff gang get on his car to chase him. Marty bump/hit two peoples, and they were ok. And then, Marty jump over Biff car, and they crashed to the truck. No one is injured, and this may suspense and intense for some viewers.
  • Near the end of the movie, George punches Biff hard in the face causing Biff to fall over backwards. It appears that Biff has been knocked out as he is seen lying motionless on the ground but no blood or bruising is seen.

Profanity

  • 4 characters (Biff gang) scream "SHIIIIIIIIIIIIIIT!!!!!!" when they about to crash at truck during the chase scene. This word is said four times.

Frightening & Intense Scenes

  • The most intense scene of the movie is later in the film Is when Biff confronts Marty & Lorraine who are in a car before the dance. Biff throws Marty out of the car and to his friends who intend on beating him up. Biff then notices Lorraine inside the car. He then traps her from leaving the car and attempt's to assault her in the car. When he later see them the car is swaying from the struggle. George confronts Biff who is in the middle of assaulting Lorraine. She cries for help. This is when George and Biff fight. she is saved though.
  • Marty starts to vanish from existence. But he is saved when his teenage parents kiss, securing his future existence and of his siblings as well.
  • The reason Marty got into the past was that just before Doc Brown was about to use the Time Machine some terrorists show up in a van and shoot Doc, leading Marty to go back in time to escape the terrorists. He goes 30 years into the past onto a Farm. The farmers try to shoot him thinking that Marty was an alien from Outer Space.
  • The whole plot of the movie is that the main character went back in time and accidentally stop his parents to meet meaning he was never born. Throughout the movie he tries to get them back together and has a photograph of his siblings disappearing from the picture.
  • A classmate initiates a mostly off-camera (but still upsetting) assault on a high school girl; she struggles/expresses fear, and groping is implied. Someone intervenes before things go further, but it's an upsetting sequence.
  • One very intense scene is when Marty attempts to return to 1985 during the thunderstorm in 1955. Everything that could go wrong DID go wrong (a tree branch snaps the cable, time quickly runs low, the car fails to start when Marty needs to "hit the gas", et cetera). Fortunately, he does make it "back to the future" in 1985.

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