# What is the best Michael J. Fox movie?

> 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.

*By YPB Team · Published November 4, 2026 · https://youpick.best/ranking/what-is-the-best-michael-j-fox-movie*

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1. **Light of Day** — score 1000/1000
   Paul Schrader's 1987 drama casting Fox and Joan Jett as siblings playing in a Cleveland bar band.
2. **Back to the Future** — score 975/1000
   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.
3. **The Secret of My Success** — score 810/1000
   A 1987 comedy in which Fox's Kansas graduate Brantley Foster secretly poses as an executive at his uncle's New York company.
4. **Bright Lights, Big City** — score 685/1000
   A 1988 adaptation of Jay McInerney's novel with Fox as a Manhattan magazine fact-checker spiralling through the club scene.
5. **Doc Hollywood** — score 636/1000
   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.
6. **Atlantis: The Lost Empire** — score 561/1000
   Disney's 2001 animated adventure in which Fox voices linguist Milo Thatch on an expedition to find Atlantis.
7. **Life with Mikey** — score 561/1000
   A 1993 comedy with Fox as a former child star who runs a struggling talent agency for child actors.
8. **The Hard Way** — score 561/1000
   A 1991 action comedy with Fox as a Hollywood star who shadows a New York detective played by James Woods to research a role.
9. **Teen Wolf** — score 561/1000
   A 1985 comedy in which Fox plays high schooler Scott Howard, who discovers he is a werewolf and becomes a basketball star.
10. **Greedy** — score 561/1000
   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.
11. **For Love or Money** — score 486/1000
   Barry Sonnenfeld's 1993 romantic comedy with Fox as a New York hotel concierge saving up to open his own hotel.
12. **Stuart Little 2** — score 486/1000
   The 2002 sequel in which Fox again voices Stuart, who sets out to rescue his bird friend Margalo.
13. **The Frighteners** — score 486/1000
   Peter Jackson's 1996 horror comedy with Fox as Frank Bannister, a con-man psychic who can actually see ghosts.
14. **Casualties of War** — score 401/1000
   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.
15. **Mars Attacks!** — score 401/1000
   Tim Burton's 1996 alien-invasion satire, in which Fox plays television reporter Jason Stone in an ensemble cast.
16. **The American President** — score 302/1000
   Rob Reiner's 1995 romantic drama in which Fox plays a White House domestic policy adviser to Michael Douglas's president.
17. **Back to the Future Part II** — score 302/1000
   The 1989 sequel that sends Marty McFly and Doc Brown to 2015 and back to an altered 1985.
18. **Back to the Future Part III** — score 302/1000
   The 1990 trilogy closer in which Marty travels to 1885 to rescue Doc Brown in the Old West.
19. **Stuart Little** — score 302/1000
   A 1999 live-action and CGI film based on E. B. White's book, with Fox voicing a mouse adopted by the Little family.
20. **Homeward Bound** — score 187/1000
   Disney's 1993 live-action adventure in which Fox voices Chance, an American Bulldog trekking home with two other pets.

Tags: movies, 80s, 90s, actors, comedy, michael j. fox