Marty McFly's life is a dump. His father, George, is constantly bullied by his supervisor Biff Tannen and his mother, Lorraine, is an overweight alcoholic. One day, Marty gets a call from his scientist friend Dr. "Doc" Emmett Lathrop Brown telling Marty and his girlfriend Jennifer Parker to meet him at Twin Pines Mall at 1:15 AM where Doc unveils a time machine that runs off of plutonium built into a DeLorean and demonstrates it to Marty. Marty accidentally activates the time machine, sending him back to 1955 where he and Jennifer accidentally get in the way of their teenage parents' first meetings. Marty and Jennifer both must find a way to convince Doc that they are from the future, reunite both of their parents, and ultimately with the help of Marty's parents helping Doc get him and Jennifer back to the future to save Doc from the heretical Libyan nationalists whom Doc helped sabotage by ripping off their plutonium.
