Given his confusion and exhaustion, Fox wondered, as he says in “Still,” “How could any of this s-t be any good?”īut “Back to the Future” became a smash hit and shot Fox into the celebrity stratosphere. In “Still,” Fox recounts the punishing routine of shooting “Family Ties” by day and “Back to the Future” by night, usually until just before sunrise surviving for three and a half months on two to three hours’ sleep a night and whatever he could catch while being driven from his apartment to the Paramount studio, then to the movie location and back to his apartment. “And he took that and put in this great double meaning thing, which I like a lot.” The title was Guggenheim’s idea, although it’s based on something Fox often said in interviews about his 2020 memoir, “No Time Like the Future”: “I would say, ‘I couldn’t be still till I couldn’t be still,’” said Fox, referring to both his hard-charging pursuit of a career and the tremors that are part of his disease. It’s a nice adventure,” Fox said, adding, “I didn’t plan on this.” It has its Canadian premiere Monday at the Hot Docs Festival and starts streaming on Apple TV Plus on May 12. from struggling Hollywood actor in his late teens to 20-something TV and movie star from his Parkinson’s disease diagnosis at age 29 to being the face of the search for a cure at 61.ĭirected by Oscar winner Davis Guggenheim, the doc has won raves since it made its world premiere in January at the Sundance Film Festival. The documentary is an engaging, entertaining sprint through Fox’s life story, from precocious kid in Northern Ontario to high school drama nerd in Burnaby, B.C. Fox himself, with typical Canadian self-deprecation, might choose a different word, but when you’re face to face with the man - even via computer screen - you can’t help but feel the weight of his long, celebrated career.
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