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Back to the Future Part 2 Official Trailer #1 - Michael J. Fox, Christopher Lloyd Movie (1989) HD

Back to the Future Part II(1989)
Released
1989 · FILM

Back to the Future Part II

A time-traveling scientist forces Marty McFly and his girlfriend to journey to 2015 to prevent a catastrophic family downfall, but a reckless gang, a hoverboard chase, and a mysterious almanac threaten to unravel the future.

“Getting back was only the beginning.”

Directed by
Robert Zemeckis
Written by
Robert Zemeckis, Bob Gale
Rated
MPA · PG
Runtime
108 min
AdventureComedySci-Fi
Streaming on
  • Paramount+

Synopsis

Marty and Doc return to time travel, journeying to 2015 to prevent future problems for the McFly family. However, complications arise due to bully Biff Tannen and a troublesome sports almanac. In a final effort to correct the situation, Marty is sent to 1955, where he once again encounters his teenage parents.

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How many hands made this film

The scale of the collaboration

A crew of 67+ credited

Why a floor?

This is a minimum, not a total. We only count the credits we’ve captured so far, and coverage is uneven — a blockbuster might show a few hundred names while another of the same size shows a couple dozen. The real crews all ran into the thousands. The number here only grows as full credits are enriched — so we frame it as a floor, never a headcount.

Craft leads on file

Edited by Arthur SchmidtShot by Dean CundeyScored by Alan SilvestriDesigned by Rick Carter

Box Office

1989 · Box office

💰 Box-office hit — grossed 8.3× its budget

Why 2.5×?

Cinemas keep roughly half of every ticket sold, and a wide release’s marketing often costs about as much again as the film — so a movie needs to gross around 2.5× its production budget just to break even theatrically. It’s a rule of thumb, not the studio’s ledger (home video and streaming come later).

Worldwide gross

$332.0M

Budget$40.0M
Worldwide gross$332.0M
break-even (2.5×)

US & Canada: $118.8M — 36% of worldwide · International: $213.2M (64%)

Opening weekend: $43.0M — 36% of its US run. Front-loaded — most of its money arrived opening weekend.

Peak 1,865 theaters

Full synopsis

Also known as

  • Zurück in die Zukunft - Teil IIde
  • Zurück in die Zukunft 2de
  • Zurück in die Zukunft IIde
  • Back to the Future 2en
  • Back to the Future IIes
  • Retour vers le futur 2fr
  • Retour vers le futur IIfr
  • Ritorno al futuro - Parte IIit
  • Ritorno al futuro IIit

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