Back to the Future's make up department really was prophetic: how tricks to make the young stars look 30 years older was eerily accurate It is nearly 30 years since the iconic movie Back to the Future was released but its make up team have proved to be eerily accurate when it came to aging the cast. With much of the film is set in the 1950s, after Michael J Fox travels back in time and meets younger versions of his parents while they are still in high school, the actors had to be artificially aged for the scenes set in the present. From the frumpy clothes worn by Lea Thompson as Marty's mother, and thick glasses and wrinkles that completed Crispin Glover's look, the costume department worked hard to make the young cast old. Uncanny: Thomas F Wilson looks like a tidier version of the artificially aged version of Biff that he played Style: Fortunately Lee Thompson has grown old more gracefully than Marty McFly's mother in the film While the actors may have more style in real life, the processes used to make them look older has proved uncanny nearly three decades later, as photographs of the cast in 1985 and today shows. In some cases, the actors still look youthful despite nearly three decades passing since the film's release. The resemblance was pointed out on a Reddit post, according to the Huffington Post. The make up department's predictions were so good that even Fox looks close to how his aged character was portrayed in the sequel. Ageless: The make up team gave Crispin Glover a furrowed brow in the film but he still looks youthful today Back to the future: The older look for Michael J Fox in the film's sequel has turned out to be close to reality