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The Butterfly Effect
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2004 film directed by Eric Bress and J. Mackye Gruber
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The Butterfly Effect is a 2004 American science fiction, fantasy, and drama film directed and written by Eric Bress. The cast includes Ashton Kutcher, Amy Smart, Elden Henson, and William Lee Scott. Produced by Toby Emmerich and Ashton Kutcher, the movie was filmed in Vancouver and set in New York. It features music by Michael Suby and cinematography by Matthew F. Leonetti. The production was handled by FilmEngine and distributed by New Line Cinema and Netflix.
The film has a runtime of 113 minutes according to IMDb and TMDb, while Wikidata lists a duration of 120 minutes. It was released in 2004, with specific dates of January 17 and January 22 noted in different sources. The movie has a budget of $13,000,000 and generated $96,800,000 in revenue. Audience ratings vary, with IMDb listing a score of 7.6 from 556,148 votes, TMDb showing 7.578 from 8,213 votes, and other sources citing scores of 4.8/10, 30/100, and 34%. The tagline is "Change one thing. Change everything." A sequel, The Butterfly Effect 2, followed the original.
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Film · TMDB
7.6A young man struggles to access sublimated childhood memories. He finds a technique that allows him to travel back into the past, to occupy his childhood body and change history. However, he soon finds that every change he makes has unexpected consequences.
Cast
- Ashton Kutcher as Evan Treborn
- Amy Smart as Kayleigh Miller
- Melora Walters as Andrea Treborn
- Elden Henson as Lenny Kagan
- William Lee Scott as Tommy Miller
- Eric Stoltz as George Miller
Themes
- prison
- mind control
- child abuse
- amnesia
- sacrifice
- chaos theory
- blackout
- trauma
- diary
- time travel
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The Butterfly Effect is a 2004 American science fiction thriller film written and directed by Eric Bress and J. Mackye Gruber. It stars Ashton Kutcher, Amy Smart, Eric Stoltz, William Lee Scott, Elden Henson, Logan Lerman, Ethan Suplee, and Melora Walters. The title refers to the butterfly effect.
Kutcher plays 20-year-old college student Evan Treborn, who experiences blackouts and memory loss throughout his childhood. In his later 20s, Evan finds he can travel back in time to inhabit his former self during those periods of blackout, now his adult mind inhabiting his younger body. He attempts to change the present by changing his past behaviors and set things right for himself and his friends, but there are unintended consequences for all. The film draws heavily on flashbacks of the characters' lives at ages 7 and 13 and presents several alternative present-day outcomes as Evan attempts to change the past, before settling on an outcome.
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