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What is the best Michael J. Fox movie?

By YPB Team

Michael J. Fox's screen career runs through time-travel blockbusters, fish-out-of-water comedies, one harrowing war drama and a few voice roles that kids still quote. Pick the one you would put on first.

  1. Light of Day — ranked #11
    Light of Day
    Paul Schrader's 1987 drama casting Fox and Joan Jett as siblings playing in a Cleveland bar band.
    1000pts
  2. Back to the Future — ranked #22
    Back to the Future
    Robert Zemeckis's 1985 film in which Fox's Marty McFly is sent from 1985 to 1955 in a time-travelling DeLorean built by Doc Brown.
    975pts
  3. The Secret of My Success — ranked #33
    The Secret of My Success
    A 1987 comedy in which Fox's Kansas graduate Brantley Foster secretly poses as an executive at his uncle's New York company.
    810pts
  4. Bright Lights, Big City — ranked #44
    Bright Lights, Big City
    A 1988 adaptation of Jay McInerney's novel with Fox as a Manhattan magazine fact-checker spiralling through the club scene.
    685pts
  5. Doc Hollywood — ranked #55
    Doc Hollywood
    A 1991 comedy in which Fox plays a young surgeon bound for Beverly Hills who is stranded in the small town of Grady, South Carolina.
    636pts
  6. Atlantis: The Lost Empire — ranked #66
    Atlantis: The Lost Empire
    Disney's 2001 animated adventure in which Fox voices linguist Milo Thatch on an expedition to find Atlantis.
    561pts
  7. Life with Mikey — ranked #77
    Life with Mikey
    A 1993 comedy with Fox as a former child star who runs a struggling talent agency for child actors.
    561pts
  8. The Hard Way — ranked #88
    The Hard Way
    A 1991 action comedy with Fox as a Hollywood star who shadows a New York detective played by James Woods to research a role.
    561pts
  9. Teen Wolf — ranked #99
    Teen Wolf
    A 1985 comedy in which Fox plays high schooler Scott Howard, who discovers he is a werewolf and becomes a basketball star.
    561pts
  10. Greedy — ranked #1010
    Greedy
    A 1994 comedy in which Fox plays a nephew drawn into his relatives' scramble for the fortune of a rich uncle played by Kirk Douglas.
    561pts
  11. For Love or Money — ranked #1111
    For Love or Money
    Barry Sonnenfeld's 1993 romantic comedy with Fox as a New York hotel concierge saving up to open his own hotel.
    486pts
  12. Stuart Little 2 — ranked #1212
    Stuart Little 2
    The 2002 sequel in which Fox again voices Stuart, who sets out to rescue his bird friend Margalo.
    486pts
  13. The Frighteners — ranked #1313
    The Frighteners
    Peter Jackson's 1996 horror comedy with Fox as Frank Bannister, a con-man psychic who can actually see ghosts.
    486pts
  14. Casualties of War — ranked #1414
    Casualties of War
    Brian De Palma's 1989 Vietnam War drama with Fox as a private who opposes his squad's abduction of a Vietnamese woman, opposite Sean Penn.
    401pts
  15. Mars Attacks! — ranked #1515
    Mars Attacks!
    Tim Burton's 1996 alien-invasion satire, in which Fox plays television reporter Jason Stone in an ensemble cast.
    401pts
  16. The American President — ranked #1616
    The American President
    Rob Reiner's 1995 romantic drama in which Fox plays a White House domestic policy adviser to Michael Douglas's president.
    302pts
  17. Back to the Future Part II — ranked #1717
    Back to the Future Part II
    The 1989 sequel that sends Marty McFly and Doc Brown to 2015 and back to an altered 1985.
    302pts
  18. Back to the Future Part III — ranked #1818
    Back to the Future Part III
    The 1990 trilogy closer in which Marty travels to 1885 to rescue Doc Brown in the Old West.
    302pts
  19. Stuart Little — ranked #1919
    Stuart Little
    A 1999 live-action and CGI film based on E. B. White's book, with Fox voicing a mouse adopted by the Little family.
    302pts
  20. Homeward Bound — ranked #2020
    Homeward Bound
    Disney's 1993 live-action adventure in which Fox voices Chance, an American Bulldog trekking home with two other pets.
    187pts

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