TCM guest programmer Michael J. Fox, the multi-talented actor, author, producer and Parkinson's research advocate, chooses an eclectic lineup of films in which the leading characters are "off the grid" in one way or another. Fox tells host Robert Osborne that he finds Stanley Kubrick's Dr. Strangelove (1964) to be a "great, twisted dark comedy" and Bill Forsyth's Local Hero (1983) "one of the most delightful rides you can be on in a movie theater - just charm from the word go."

With his love of political thrillers, Fox is a fan of Alan J. Pakula's The Parallax View (1974) and of star Warren Beatty's "suave and cool" antihero. Robert Hamer's black comedy Kind Hearts and Coronets (1949), made soon after World War II, proved that the English could "come out of a nightmare with their sense of humor intact."

Canadian-born Fox sprang to fame playing buttoned-down Alex P. Keaton in the hit TV sitcom Family Ties, which brought him three Emmys. His big movie franchise was Back to the Future, which began in 1985 and spawned two sequels. After sterling performances in Bright Lights, Big City (1988) and Casualties of War (1989), he returned to television with another successful series, Spin City (1996-2002).