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The Butterfly Effect, 2004

Starring: Ashton Kutcher, Amy Smart

Directed by: Eric Bress, J. Mackye Gruber

Written by: Eric Bress

Language: English

Country: USA

Runtime: 113 min

MPAA Rating: R

Rating:7.8

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The Butterfly Effect can be described as stylized, suspenseful, and mind bending. The plot revolves around changing the past or future, time travel, and being haunted by the past. The main genres are thriller and sci-fi. In terms of style, The Butterfly Effect is nonlinear and involves twists and turns. In approach, it is fantastical and serious. It takes place in contemporary times. Note that The Butterfly Effect involves drugs/alcohol, sexual content, and violent content.

Summary of The Butterfly Effect

Playing God has its consequences, which is the theme of the tricky time-travel shockfest THE BUTTERFLY EFFECT. J. Mackye Gruber and Eric Bress, who share writing and directing credits, make a splash with a gripping script that never fails to throw twists and loops into the plot. Both thematically and visually, the film is similar to the perfect commercial filmmaking in the team's script for FINAL DESTINATION II.

Here, Evan Trehorn (Ashton Kutcher) is a college student who has suffered from blackouts and memory loss since he was a child. Tormented by deeply repressed childhood memories, he has visions of his best friend and first love Kayleigh (Amy Smart) as a child (Irene Gorovaia) whose Dad (Eric Stoltz) is a child molester, and whose brother Tommy has a serious sadistic streak. In search of greater clarity, Evan pores over his journals and is physically transported back in time where he is still a young boy (John P. Amedori) and has the ability to change what happened. But soon he realizes that changing history has caused calamitous results elsewhere. A mesmerizing thriller with a dark underlying mystery, THE BUTTERFLY EFFECT is delightfully chilling.

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Language:	English
Country:	USA
Release date:	23 January 2004
Runtime:	113 min

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Ashton Kutcher

as Evan

Amy Smart

as Kayleigh

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Logan Lerman and Melora Walters in The Butterfly Effect (2004)

Ethan Suplee and Ashton Kutcher in The Butterfly Effect (2004)

Elden Henson and Ashton Kutcher in The Butterfly Effect (2004)

Logan Lerman in The Butterfly Effect (2004)

Ashton Kutcher and Amy Smart in The Butterfly Effect (2004)

Ashton Kutcher and Melora Walters in The Butterfly Effect (2004)

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USA Today

Unpleasantness alone doesn't sink a movie. But miserable tidings intensify when there's not only a high ick factor but also floundering storytelling. Full Review

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by: Mike Clark

The Globe and Mail (Toronto)

Somewhere, back in the mists of time, co-writers Eric Bress and J. Mackye Gruber must have flapped their gums in the fond hope of crafting a script; today, that whisper of hot air has swollen into a feature flick that rains down upon us a veritable... Full Review

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by: Rick Groen

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This is a dark humorless piece of garbage. The first twenty minutes- a woman and her baby are blown up by a stick of dynamite; kids star in a kiddie porn; and the family dog is burned alive. And it just get worse from there... girlfriend becomes... Read and rate it

20.September.2010
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by: felixxx999
felixxx999 rated this movie1/10Awful

Never expected the ending

A good movie. It is a movie that you really can not guess the ending unless you saw the whole movie. It is defently a good mystery movie and the ending seemed good and bad for the main charecter all at the same time. Ashton Kutcher also does a great... Read and rate it

14.March.2010
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by: kathryn
kathryn rated this movie6/10Okay

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