Back to the Future Part III
May 25, 1990 in theaters
The final installment finds Marty digging the trusty DeLorean out of a mineshaft and looking for Doc in the Wild West of 1885. But when their time machine breaks down, the travelers are stranded in a land of spurs. More problems arise when Doc falls for pretty schoolteacher Clara Clayton, and Marty tangles with Buford Tannen.
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"I'm gonna get you back, Doc. No matter what."
DID YOU KNOW?
The steam locomotive used in the finale was a real 1886 Sierra No. 3 steam engine borrowed from a California railroad museum.
THE VERDICT
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A warm, deliberately relaxed close to the trilogy, trading time-paradox complexity for a Western genre exercise that gives its characters room to breathe. The Doc and Clara romance is the franchise's most sincere emotional subplot, and the film earns its sentimental finale without forcing it. It's the lightest of the three, but closing a story with genuine affection is harder than it looks. A graceful and fitting ending.
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