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Back to the Future Part II is a 1989 American
comic science fiction film directed by
Robert Zemeckis and written by
Bob Gale. It is the sequel to the 1985 film
Back to the Future and the second installment in the
Back to the Future trilogy. The film stars
Michael J. Fox,
Christopher Lloyd,
Thomas F. Wilson and
Lea Thompson and continues immediately following the
original film. After repairing the damage to history done by his previous
time travel adventures,
Marty McFly (Fox) and his friend
Dr. Emmett "Doc" Brown (Lloyd) travel to 2015 to prevent McFly's future son from ending up imprisoned. However, their presence allows
Biff Tannen (Wilson) to steal Doc's
DeLorean time machine and travel to 1955, where he alters history by making his younger self wealthy.
A brief joke has the
Chicago Cubs winning the
2015 World Series over a
Miami-based team whose logo was depicted in the film as an alligator, given both the
long title drought of the Cubs and the fact that at the time, no
Major League Baseball team was located in
Florida. The state of Florida has since gained two franchises: the Florida Marlins (now the
Miami Marlins) in 1993 and the Tampa Bay Devil Rays (now the
Tampa Bay Rays) in 1998. (The Marlins, like the Cubs, are a member franchise of the
National League (NL), making it an impossibility that the two franchises would play each other in the
World Series.) In
the actual 2015 season, neither Florida-based team qualified for the
postseason, but the Cubs clinched a berth in the
NL Wild Card Game, marking their first postseason appearance since
2008. The Cubs won 4-0 at Pittsburgh to advance to the
2015 National League Division Series against their chief rival and Central Division champions, the
St. Louis Cardinals, which they won, three games to one.
