Happy Birthday Michael J. Fox! Our Top M.J Movies....
Happy Birthday Michael J. Fox! As hard as it might be to believe, the fresh faced Marty....sorry Michael turns 53 year old today!
As one of our retro movie heroes, we thought we would celebrate with him in style by sharing with you guys some of our top movies staring the man himself.
Bringing us so many classics, it's hard to be and 80s kid and not love him and his classic movies. Take a peep at some of our top moments from his amazing career....
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Teen Wolf (1985)
Just one of many M.J 80s classics! Teen Wolf is pretty much the icon of 80s cheese, but also is one of the most adored films of it's time, giving us an amazing coming of age style story that continued to flood out of the US for the next 20 years. Released on the heels of the hugely successful Back to the Future, this further help launch and keep Michael in the big time.
Teen Wolf chronicles the plight of Fox as a small-town nerd who can't seem to score a basket on the court or a point with his dream girl. Things change, however, once he discovers his family's hereditary secret, lycanthrope. As he begins to look hairier and hairier, his team begins to win basketball games and his dream girl begins to show interest in his unusual talent.
Simply one of THEEE 80s classics.
Mars Attacks (1996)
We LOOOVE Mars Attacks! So many memories of watching this film back on good ol VHS, trying to imagine what it would be like is all this came true, making the alien noises, wishing we had a space ship. Bliss!
Although not a massive character in this flick, we still hold this as a great role at a point in his career after BTTF fame, still doing his thing and working with Tim Burton.
The story follows a number of characters through the short-lived excitement of a visit from Mars. Not long after their arrival...actually on their arrival, the situation turns and the alien start a full scale invasion of Earth, seemingly just for fun!
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Back to the Future (1985)
Ahhhh! And here it is folks! Possible the biggest and most-loved 80s films, Back to the Future has been a real icon since its release back in the mid 80s and is still as much of a hit now as it was back then.
Marty McFly, a typical American teenager of the Eighties, is accidentally sent back to 1955 in a plutonium-powered DeLorean "time machine" invented by slightly mad scientist. During his often hysterical, always amazing trip back in time, Marty must make certain his teenage parents-to-be meet and fall in love - so he can get back to the future.
Such a classic and surely need to further introduction or explanation right? :)
Casualties of War (1989)
Based on a New Yorker article by Daniel Lang which was inspired by a true incident which illustrated the dehumanizing aspects of the Vietnam experience. Michael J. Fox plays Eriksson, a member of an American squadron stationed in the deepest jungles of Southeast Asia. Sean Penn co-stars as Meserve, the squadron sergeant, who vows revenge after his best friend is killed. He orders his men to invade a village and "requisition" a young Vietnamese girl (Thuy Thu Lee). The horrified Eriksson refuses to participate in these atrocities, and he does his best to console the girl and to attempt to free her. Before this can happen, however, Meserve orders another man to kill the girl. Once he returns to camp, Eriksson attempts to file a report on the tragedy and to bring Meserve and the others to justice, but he is stonewalled by the brass and threatened with death by his fellow soldiers. Heavy stuff but a great story!
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The Frighteners (1996)
Charlatan Frank Bannister has genuine psychic powers, but he doesn't use them to help people. Rather, he generates cases for his supernatural private-eye firm by harassing a group of hapless ghosts (including a dearly departed Wild West outlaw and an undead judge played by John Astin) into staging hauntings and poltergeists in the homes of likely marks. Bannister's world turns on its head when he starts noticing real hauntings around town -- ghostly assassinations that seem to be tied to the execution 20 years earlier of a brutal serial killer. Lucy Lunskey, the wife of one unlucky victim, teams up with Bannister to get to the bottom of the killings and find out what shut-in Patricia Bradley (Dee Wallace Stone) and her witchy mother have to do with the sinister spree.
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The Hard Way (1991)
Actors playing actors is always funny, a great sense of irony which is exactly what this film is bursting with! Seeing James Woods play a homicide detective and M.J a famous actor who is trying to master a Police role by shadowing him, the story follows the pair as they hunt for killer 'The Party Crasher' with the young actor doing nothing but hindering his case. Love it!
Well that's all for now peeps! We hope you've enjoyed out little celebration and perhaps even picked up on some classic films that you can now go away and watch....or re-watch!
Happy Birthday Michael J. Fox from all the team at TruffleShuffle! Thanks for the memories.
xoxo