A story of high school football glory featuring a cast of up-and-comers including Tom Cruise, Lea Thompson and Chris Penn, ALL THE RIGHT MOVES (1983) was released a few short months after Cruise’s inarguable star-making turn in RISKY BUSINESS (1983) – an immediately iconic cultural milestone produced by AFI Alum Jon Avnet (AFI Class of...

Named one of the top ten sci-fi films in the art form’s history by the American Film Institute, BACK TO THE FUTURE (1985) was directed by Robert Zemeckis – one of the featured artists in AFI’S MASTER CLASS: THE ART OF COLLABORATION on TCM – and co-written by Neil Canton, who instructed the next generation...