MICHAEL J FOX
‘THIS IS REAL. THIS IS MY LIFE’
he Back to the Future star appears as himself in a film that documents his battle with Parkinson’s. And the reality is as dramatic as his Arriving at 88 miles per hour into ’80s pop culture, Michael J Fox was an instant global movie superstar. Propelled by near-as-dammit perfect time-travel comedy, he became a teen idol and a hero to millions. Here was an everyman in that grand Hollywood tradition which dictates that we fall deepest in love not with the Adonises, but with those stars who are enough like us to feel authentic, while being funnier, quicker, more charming, better looking than we can hope to be.
