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    BACK WHEN THE FUTURE LOOKED BRIGHT

    May 23, 2022 3 minutes
    Words: Steven MacKenzie

    Lea Thompson is familiar with the future. In the trilogy of Back to the Future films she played Marty McFly’s mother Lorraine at three ages: a 17-year-old high schooler in 1955 who almost dates her time-travelling son, two alternative versions of her 1985 – the film’s present day – 47-year-old self, and a 77-year-old who lived in what back then was far in the future, but now seems quite long ago: 2015. The future in had flying cars, hoverboards, self-tying shoelaces sequels. We have the internet and a load of Biffs running the show.

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