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From: mangoe@umcp-cs.UUCP (Charley Wingate)
Newsgroups: net.movies
Subject: Re: "Back to the Future" Question (Spoiler)
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Date: Mon, 5-Aug-85 15:46:30 EDT
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Posted: Mon Aug  5 15:46:30 1985
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In article <249@anasazi.UUCP> duane@anasazi.UUCP (Duane Morse) writes:

>Toward the end of the movie, when the kid's parents-to-be finally kiss,
>the kid shows Doc the picture of himself with his brother and sister
>to prove that things are going to work out ok. After the movie was
>over, it dawned on me that Doc looked puzzled when he saw the
>picture, and he said something to himself such as "I was afraid
>of that." Did the picture show the family as the kid found them
>when he returned to his "present"?

I thought he was reacting to Marty's statements that his father had just 
decked Biff and that his father had "never stood up to Biff in his life."
The future had been changed; hence the comment.

C Wingate