August 1985.
It’s the dog days of summer, during the dog days of the most bodacious decade.
“Back to the Future” owns the box office, spending its first three weeks after its July 3 release as the No. 1 movie in America before slipping to second, only to begin another eight weeks in the top spot after that.
But there’s an actor in another Michael J. Fox flick who hits it big that August with two movies.
On Aug. 9, “Pee-wee’s Big Adventure” came out, with Mark Holton playing Francis, the man-child who steals Pee-wee Herman’s bike, sparking Pee-wee’s hilariously surreal road trip to find it. Two weeks later, on Aug. 23, “Teen Wolf,” a comedy with Fox portraying an average teen who must come to terms with the fact he’s a werewolf, was released. Holton played Chubby, one of the teammate