You Have a Match, and You Know Where the Paper Is

He always prints his name on the matchbook

Tucker Lieberman
14 min readAug 23, 2019

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Biff, driving his car with the almanac flapping on the windshield, sneers at Marty.
Still from the movie

The sequel to “Back to the Future,” released 30 years ago in 1989, reveals a dystopia set around what is essentially a Trump presidency. The hero of this campy time travel film accidentally causes the brutish buffoon’s ascendancy and has to undo it. Does the film have a campy, time-travel answer to our…

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Tucker Lieberman

Editor for Prism & Pen. Author of the novel "Most Famous Short Film of All Time." https://tuckerlieberman.com/