Still: A Michael J. Fox Movie: Everything we learned from the new documentary - Entertainment Weekly News

Told through a series of interviews with the actor, and interspersed with a blend of reenactments and cleverly selected clips of his work, Still provides an intimate, unflinching, and often funny look at Fox's incredible life story.

Still, some of the documentary's most poignant moments come in unscripted exchanges with Guggenheim, who questions him about the bruises and scrapes that crop up on his body, evidence of his most recent falls.

Fox lived in a cramped apartment in the early days of his career, so broke that he would take home packets of jam from restaurants to eat as a snack.

The show became a hit, with Fox as its standout star, seemingly to the chagrin of his onscreen parents, Meredith Baxter-Birney and Michael Gross, who were originally supposed to be the main attractions.

Fox admits that he got some playful revenge on Tartikoff years later, sending him a Back to the Future lunchbox with his face on it, along with a message: "To Brandon: This is for you to put your crow in.

Zemeckis wanted Fox for the lead role of Marty McFly, but, due to his work on Family Ties, Greenberg refused to let the director approach his star.