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The Butterfly Effect (Infinifilm Edition) (2004)
Front Cover Actor
Ashton Kutcher Evan
Melora Walters Andrea
Amy Smart Kayleigh Miller
Elden Henson Lenny
William Lee Scott Tommy
John Patrick Amedori Evan at 13
Irene Gorovaia Kayleigh at 13
Kevin Schmidt Lenny at 13 (as Kevin G. Schmidt)
Jesse James Tommy at 13
Logan Lerman Evan at 7
Eric Stoltz
Ethan Suplee
Movie Details
Genre Thriller
Director Eric Bress; J. Mackye Gruber
Producer Chris Bender; Anthony Rhulen; A.J. Dix
Writer J. Mackye Gruber; Eric Bress
Studio New Line Home Entertainment
Language English
Audience Rating R (Restricted)
Running Time 113 mins
Country USA
Color Color
IMDb Rating 7.4
Plot
Despite box-office dominance during its opening weekend, The Butterfly Effect is better suited to guilty-pleasure viewing at home. When writer-directors Eric Bress and J. Mackye Gruber (who penned Final Destination 2) aren't breaking their own haphazard rules of logic, they're filling this sordid thriller with enough unpleasantness to make eternal damnation seem like an attractive alternative. In a role-reversal from his That '70s Show persona, Ashton Kutcher plays a college-age psychology student who discovers, by re-reading his childhood journals, that he can revisit his past and alter traumatic events, hoping to improve their previously unfortunate outcomes. Instead, this foolhardy experiment in chaos theory (the titular "butterfly effect," popularized by Jeff Goldblum in Jurassic Park) results in a variety of nightmarish permutations, each having dire consequences for him and/or his friends. This intriguing premise is explored with a few interesting twists and turns, but with subplots involving child pornography, animal cruelty, and profanely violent children, it's a stretch to call it entertainment. --Jeff Shannon
Personal Details
Seen It Yes
Index 377
Collection Status In Collection
Links Amazon US
IMDB
DVD Empire
Product Details
Format DVD
Region Region 1
Screen Ratio Widescreen 1.85:1 Color
Layers Dual side, Single layer
UPC 794043717321
Release Date 7/6/2004
Subtitles English; Spanish
Packaging Keep Case
Audio Tracks ENGLISH: DD-EX 5.1 [CC]
ENGLISH: DTS 6.1 [CC]
Nr of Disks/Tapes 1
Extra Features
Color