The Butterfly Effect
Change one thing. Change everything.
Overview
A 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.
- Budget
- $13,000,000
- Revenue
- $96,800,000
- Production
- FilmEngine, Katalyst Films, BenderSpink, New Line Cinema
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Cast
Ashton Kutcher
Evan Treborn
Amy Smart
Kayleigh Miller
Melora Walters
Andrea Treborn
Elden Henson
Lenny Kagan
William Lee Scott
Tommy Miller
Eric Stoltz
George Miller
Ethan Suplee
Thumper
Logan Lerman
Evan Treborn age 7
John Patrick Amedori
Evan Treborn age 13
Irina Gorovaia
Kayleigh age 13
Kevin G. Schmidt
Lenny age 13
Jesse James
Tommy age 13
Nathaniel DeVeaux
Dr. Redfield
Kevin Durand
Carlos
Callum Keith Rennie
Jason Treborn
Cameron Bright
Tommy age 7
Lorena Gale
Mrs. Boswell
Kendall Cross
Mrs. Kagan
John Tierney
Priest
Ted Friend
Anchor
Crew
- Director
- Eric Bress,J. Mackye Gruber
- Writers
- J. Mackye Gruber,Eric Bress
- Producers
- Chris Bender,A.J. Dix,J.C. Spink,Anthony Rhulen
- Cinematography
- Matthew F. Leonetti
- Composer
- Michael Suby
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John Chard
April 26, 2020
You can't change who people are without destroying who they were. The Butterfly Effect - Directors Cut The Butterfly Effect is directed by Eric Bress and Bress co-writes the screenplay with J. Mackye Gruber. It stars Ashton Kutcher, Melora Walters, Amy Smart, Elden Henson, William Lee Scott, Eric Stoltz and Ethan Suplee. Music is by Michael Suby and cinematography by Matthew F. Leonetti. The title refers to the butterfly effect, the chaos theory of a popular hypothetical situation t…
CinemaSerf
August 12, 2024
"Evan" (Ashton Kutcher) has had a troubled existence thus far in his young life, and is prone to blackouts. These seem to take chunks of his day away from him as he comes back to a consciousness unaware of what has just taken place, or even where he is! He tries to fill in the gaps by writing in his journal what could have happened then miraculously finds himself back at that exact time and place. It's almost as if these memory lapses were just missing pieces of his jigsaw puzzle that he must go…
AlfaVitaY2K
May 29, 2026
A brutal, high concept psychological Sci-Fi thriller that’s genuinely genius. Ashton Kutcher delivers his best dramatic performance as Evan Treborn, a man who discovers he can rewrite his traumatic past through his diary, only to cause cascading disasters in the present. Smart script, tight direction by Eric Bress and J. Mackye Gruber, and a relentless downward spiral that keeps you hooked. The original theatrical ending is perfect. Bleak, logical, and thematically airtight. It respects the b…