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The film’s last act follows a massive reenactment at a Medford, Ore., high school, where a “mass casualty drill” was scheduled after a janitor turned himself into police before acting on homicidal thoughts.

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Charley finds direction when a neighborhood janitor invites him into a pickup game.

As cover, he worked as a janitor in a building where many American embassy officials lived—but apparently the KGB didn’t buy it.

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A museum guard stood outside the bathroom, and janitors cleaned the piece every 15 minutes or so.

Marty comes of age in the Hill Valley of 1985, where vandals have shellacked the high school with so much graffiti that the janitors seem to have given up.

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