 Also that year, she played Ethel McCormack, mother to Kevin Bacon's character, in "Footloose".In 1985 she appeared in the film "Back to the Future" as Stella Baines, the mother to the character played by Lea Thompson.In 1986, she played Mrs. Lachance, the mother of Gordie Lachance (Wil Wheaton), in the drama film "Stand by Me".