 and I find out that my father had been the president of his graduating class. I didn't know this. And I'm looking at him and thinking about the president of my graduating class, who was a guy I had nothing to do with. And I thought, would I have been friends with him if I had gone to high school, or would I have just hated his guts? After taking the idea back to his writing partner Robert Zemeckis, known together as the Two Bobs, Zemeckis lit up and mentioned how his mother's high school stories were often contradictory.