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| director = Eric Bress<br>J. Mackye Gruber
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| budget = $13 million
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'''''The Butterfly Effect''''' is a 2004 American ] ] film written and directed by ] and ]. It stars ], ], ], ], ], ], ], and ]. The title refers to the ].


Kutcher plays 20-year-old college student Evan Treborn,<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.imsdb.com/scripts/Butterfly-Effect,-The.html |last1=Gruber|first1=J. Mackye |last2= Bress |first2= Eric |title= ''The Butterfly Effect'': Shooting Draft |publisher= Internet Movie Script Database |access-date=Aug 12, 2017}}</ref> 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, with 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 ] 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 a final outcome.
'''''The Butterfly Effect''''' is a ] ] ]/] ] starring ], ], ], and others, distributed by ]. The title is a reference to the ], which theorises that a change in something seemingly innocuous, such as a flap of a ]'s wings, may cause unexpected larger changes in the future, such as a tornado. ''The Butterfly Effect'' is ] and ] by ] and ].


The film had a poor critical reception;<ref name=rotten /><ref name=metacritic /><ref name=bradshaw/> however, it was a commercial success, generating box-office revenues of $96 million on a budget of $13 million. The film won the Pegasus Audience Award at the ], and was nominated for Best Science Fiction Film at the ] and Choice Movie: Thriller in the ], but lost to '']'' and '']'', another film from ], respectively.
The movie was followed by a largely unrelated direct-to-DVD sequel, '']''.

==Plot summary==
Evan Treborn (]), who suffered severe ]s as a boy (]) and a teenager (]), ] frequently, often at moments of high ]. While searching for an answer to heal his emotional wounds, he finds that when he reads from his adolescent journals, he ], and is able to essentially "redo" parts of his past, and thereby causing the blackouts he experienced as a child. There are consequences of his choices, however, that he then propagates back to the present; his alternate futures vary from ] to prisoner to ]. As he continues to do this, he realizes that even though his intentions are good, the actions he takes always have ]s. In addition, he needs to go further back in time after every attempt as several fatal mistakes he makes do something to wipe out that and all subsequent journal entries.


==Plot== ==Plot==
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===Age 7===
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Growing up, Evan Treborn, his friends Lenny Kagan and Kayleigh Miller, and Kayleigh's brother Tommy suffered many severe ]s that caused Evan to experience frequent ]. These traumas include being forced to create ] with Kayleigh by Tommy's father George, Evan nearly being strangled to death by his institutionalized father Jason before Jason is killed in front of him by guards, accidentally killing a mother and her infant daughter while playing with ], and Tommy burning Evan's dog Crockett alive. Evan keeps meticulous journals of his day to day life as a coping mechanism.
In his childhood, Evan Treborn begins to experience sudden memory blackouts. His mother, Andrea, fears that he might have inherited his father's mental illness. His father, Jason Treborn, is in an asylum. Evan's doctor advises Evan to keep a daily journal to train his memory.


Some time later, while entertaining a girl in his college dorm room, Evan discovers that he can time travel and redo parts of his past by reading his journals; his time-traveling episodes account for the frequent blackouts he experienced, since those are the moments when his older self occupied his consciousness.
A first blackout happens in 1989 at school while Evan is drawing a picture of his future. The very detailed picture shows a man with a knife, standing over two bodies covered in blood. Evan's teacher is rather worried and shows the picture to Andrea. Evan doesn't remember having drawn it.


After a traumatized Kayleigh commits suicide, Evan travels back in time and prevents George from molesting her. He comes back to a reality where he and Kayleigh are a happy couple in college, but discovers George ended up taking out all of his abusive tendencies on Tommy, who grew up to become even more violent and dangerous. When Evan is attacked by Tommy, he kills Tommy in self defense and is imprisoned. There, he manages to time travel once more after his mother brings him a journal during a visit.
Evan experiences a second blackout at home, when Andrea accidentally sees her son holding a knife. Evan has no recollection of picking up the knife.


Upon returning, Evan stops Tommy from killing Crockett, but Lenny, relentlessly bullied by Tommy and mentally unstable following the dynamite incident, kills Tommy with a metal shard. Following Tommy’s death, Evan wakes up in a new reality where Lenny has been institutionalized and Kayleigh is a drug-addicted prostitute. Evan travels back to prevent the dynamite accident; while Tommy shields the mother and baby from the blast, Evan is caught directly in the explosion.
Evan's best friend and first love Kayleigh's parents get ]d, and her mother moves in with her new family. Kayleigh and her brother, Tommy, are offered a choice of which parent to stay with. Kayleigh chooses her father, in spite of the abuse she suffers at his hands, because she doesn't want to leave Evan. Tommy goes with his sister to protect her from her abusive father. He then blames Evan for the abuse he receives and is abusive to Evan and others around him, making him into a budding ].


In the new reality, Lenny and Kayleigh are happily in a relationship and Tommy has become religious, but Evan is a double amputee. His mother, stricken with grief over her son's injuries, began smoking obsessively and developed lung cancer. To save his mother and himself from this fate, Evan goes back to his childhood and prepares to discard the lit dynamite, but Kayleigh picks it up when it is smacked out of his hand by her father, and it explodes, killing her.
Another day, Evan is at his neighbor's house, playing with Kayleigh & Tommy. Kayleigh's father, George, asks him to be in a movie about ]. There is a third blackout — Evan finds himself standing in the basement of Miller's house, naked. By his side stands Kayleigh, similarly undressed. It is apparent that they had been forced to participate in a ] video.


Evan awakens in a mental hospital and finds that his journals no longer exist and he has suffered irreversible brain damage due to the rigors of time travel. He discovers that his father had the same ability before losing the photographs that allowed him to time travel. Evan ultimately reasons that he and his friends will never have good futures as long as he keeps altering the past.
Evan's mother talks with a doctor about Evan's strange behavior, who convinces her that Evan may be acting out because he has no father figure in his life. They arrange for Evan to visit his father as a remedy.


After escaping the hospital staff and barricading himself in an office, Evan uses an old home movie to travel back to the day he first met Kayleigh. He intentionally upsets her so that she and Tommy choose to live with their mother rather than their father in the wake of their parents' divorce. As a result, the siblings are not subjected to a destructive upbringing, and Lenny is never bullied.
Evan experiences a fourth blackout when he sees his father, Jason, at the clinic. The meeting starts as it should, but all of sudden there is a flash — and Evan finds himself on the floor with his father trying to strangle him. The guards burst in, and while violently restraining Jason, they kill him.


Evan awakens in a college dorm room, where Lenny is his roommate. To ensure that his plan worked, he asks where Kayleigh is; Lenny does not know who Evan is referring to. Satisfied that his friends' futures are secure, Evan burns his journals and videos to avoid altering the past ever again.
===Age 13===
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Eight years later, in ], Evan and Kayleigh pass each other on the street, briefly look at each other, and continue walking.
The fifth blackout happens in ] when Evan spends his time with the Millers and Lenny Kagan, another childhood friend. While hanging out together one afternoon, they find a ] stick in the Millers' basement and decide to play a prank with it. They plant it in a mailbox, light the fuse, and wait. Again, a flash indicating a blackout — Evan and others are running through the forest, and Lenny is ]. Evidently something terrible happened, but Evan can't remember what it was and no one will tell him. Lenny is taken to the clinic in a state of deep ].
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===Director's cut===
Not long afterwards, Evan, Kayleigh and Tommy sneak into the movie '']''. Kayleigh leaves when she finds one of the earlier scenes disturbing, and Evan follows her out. He apologizes, and says it was a bad idea. Kayleigh asks him about the forest, and he comforts her. Somewhat awkwardly, they kiss. Then Tommy walks in. He threatens the couple in a fit of rage, but is tripped by an older boy, whom Tommy nearly beats to death for embarrassing him. He is subsequently taken away by security, sneering cruelly at Evan as he moves past him.
The ] features a different ending. With his brain terribly damaged and aware that he is committed to a psychiatric facility where he will lose access to his time travel ability, Evan makes a desperate attempt to change the timeline by watching a family video, which shows his mother just before she was about to give birth to Evan. Evan travels back to that moment and strangles himself in the womb with his ] so as to prevent the multi-] from continuing, consistent with an added scene where a psychic palm reader tells Evan "you have no lifeline" and that he does "not belong to this world". Kayleigh is then seen as a child in the new timeline having chosen to live with her mother instead of her father, and a montage suggests that the lives of the other childhood characters have become loving and less tragic.


==Cast==
A couple of days later, Evan and Kayleigh go and find Lenny, whom they had not seen since the dynamite incident. On their way to the cabin, they find Tommy, who in his anger at Evan ( for kissing Keyleigh) has kidnapped his dog and tied it in a sack. He threatens to set the sack on fire. There is a flash and again for the sixth time Evan has a blackout. He wakes up with Kayleigh sitting crying next to him with a deep cut on her face, and himself all bruised and battered. He also sees Lenny sitting near the fire, where the sack had been burned.
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{{Cast listing|
* ] as Evan
** ] as Evan at 13
** ] as Evan at 7
* ] as Andrea
* ] as Kayleigh
** ] as Kayleigh at 13
** Sarah Widdows as Kayleigh at 7
* ] as Lenny
** ] as Lenny at 13
** Jake Kaese as Lenny at 7
* ] as Tommy
** ] as Tommy at 13
** ] as Tommy at 7
* ] as Mr. Miller
* ] as Jason
* ] as Mrs. Boswell
* Nathaniel Deveaux as Dr. Redfield
* ] as Thumper
* ] as Carlos
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==Reception==
He is then forced to move away, and promises Kayleigh that he will "come back for ", but never keeps his promise. Kayleigh supposedly tries to move closer to Evan, but her father forbids it.


===Age 20=== ===Critical reception===
Critical reception for ''The Butterfly Effect'' was generally poor.<ref name=rotten /><ref name=metacritic /><ref name=bradshaw/> On ] website ], the film holds a 33% approval rating based on 172 reviews; the ] is 4.8/10. The site's consensus reads: "The premise is intriguing, but it's placed in the service of an overwrought and tasteless thriller."<ref name=rotten>{{cite web|url = http://www.rottentomatoes.com/m/butterfly_effect/|title=The Butterfly Effect (2004) |access-date=August 1, 2018|website=]}}</ref> On ], another review aggregator, it has a score of 30 out of 100 based on 35 reviews, indicating "generally unfavorable reviews".<ref name=metacritic>{{cite web|url=http://www.metacritic.com/video/titles/butterflyeffect|title=Butterfly Effect, The Reviews|access-date=Aug 12, 2017|website=]|archive-date=March 27, 2010|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20100327144051/http://www.metacritic.com/video/titles/butterflyeffect|url-status=dead}}</ref> Audiences polled by ] gave the film an average grade of "B+" on an A+ to F scale.<ref>{{Cite web |title=Home |url=https://www.cinemascore.com/ |access-date=2023-02-11 |website=] |language=en-US}}</ref>
In ], Evan is in college, ] in ]. When he brings a girl back to his room, she discovers his old diaries and Evan reads about the events preceding the sixth blackout. In a flash, he finds himself living the missed events of the sixth blackout. He watches Lenny try to free the dog, but unable to untie the ropes. This leads him to return to his hometown to find Lenny isolated in his unchanged childhood room, finding him now extremely ]. After speaking to him, he realizes the vision in his room really happened.


] wrote that he "enjoyed ''The Butterfly Effect'', up to a point" and that the "plot provides a showcase for acting talent, since the actors have to play characters who go through wild swings." However, Ebert said that the scientific notion of the ] is used inconsistently: Evan's changes should have wider reverberations.<ref>Ebert, Roger. "Back and forth, and back again - ''Butterfly Effect'' causes the feeling of being jerked around." '']''. January 23, 2004. p. 31. "This is a premise not unknown to science fiction, where one famous story has a time-traveler stepping on a cockroach millions of years ago and wiping out humanity. The remarkable thing about the changes in ''The Butterfly Effect'' is that they're so precisely aimed: They apparently affect only the characters in the movie."</ref> Sean Axmaker of the '']'' called it a "metaphysical mess", criticizing the film's mechanics for being "fuzzy at best and just plain sloppy the rest of the time".<ref>{{cite news |url=http://www.seattlepi.com/ae/movies/article/Butterfly-Effect-is-wrapped-in-a-cocoon-of-grim-1135163.php|title='Butterfly Effect' is wrapped in a cocoon of grim absurdity|author=Axmaker, Sean|newspaper=] |date=22 January 2004 |access-date=Aug 12, 2017}}</ref> Mike Clark of '']'' also gave the film a negative review, stating, "Normally, such a premise comes off as either intriguing or silly, but the morbid ]s (there's ], too) prevent ''Effect'' from becoming the unintentional howler it might otherwise be."<ref>{{cite news |url=https://www.usatoday.com/life/movies/reviews/2004-01-22-butterfly-effect_x.htm|title=Change is not so good for Kutcher in 'The Butterfly Effect'|author=Clark, Mike |newspaper=USA Today |date=22 January 2004|access-date=Aug 12, 2017}}</ref> Additionally, Ty Burr of '']'' went as far as saying, "whatever train-wreck pleasures you might locate here are spoiled by the vile acts the characters commit."<ref>{{cite news |url=http://www.boston.com/movies/display?display=movie&id=2150 |title=Kutcher falls flat in 'The Butterfly Effect' |author=Burr, Ty |newspaper=The Boston Globe |date=23 January 2004 |access-date=Aug 12, 2017}}</ref>
Seeking to reproduce this strange effect, he reads an extract about the fifth blackout and in a similar experience, learns that while they were waiting for the dynamite to blow up, a woman with a baby came to the postbox and both were killed by the explosion. The kids, horrified, just watch her and make no effort to warn her, then run off into the woods after the explosion and Lenny is rendered catatonic by guilt. Legally, all three kids are guilty of ] by ].


Matt Soergel of '']'' rated it three stars out of four, writing, "''The Butterfly Effect'' is preposterous, feverish, creepy and stars Ashton Kutcher in a dramatic role. It's a blast... a solidly entertaining B-movie. It's even quite funny at times..."<ref>{{cite news |last= Soergel |first= Matt |title= Time after time... Ashton Kutcher revisits his past, again and again |work= ] |location= Jacksonville, Florida |date= January 23, 2004 |url=http://jacksonville.com/tu-online/stories/012304/enm_14599338.shtml|page= WE-5 |access-date=Aug 12, 2017}}</ref> '']'' said, "''The Butterfly Effect'' is better than you might expect despite its awkward, slow beginning, drawing you in gradually and paying off in surprisingly effective and bittersweet ways," and added that Kutcher is "appealing and believable... ''The Butterfly Effect'' sticks to its rules fairly well... overall the film is consistent in its flights of fancy."<ref>{{cite news |last= Ogle |first= Connie |title= Kutcher Effective in Grown-Up Role |work= ] |date= January 23, 2004 |page= 9G |url= http://infoweb.newsbank.com/iw-search/we/InfoWeb?p_product=AWNB&p_theme=aggregated5&p_action=doc&p_docid=10053849153BFA25&p_docnum=18&p_queryname=4 |access-date= May 7, 2013 }}</ref> The ''Worcester Telegram & Gazette'' praised it as "a disturbing film" and "the first really interesting film of 2004," adding that Kutcher "carries it off": {{blockquote|Written and directed by Eric Bress and J. Mackye Gruber, who co-wrote '']'', this is much more intelligent than their earlier film would suggest... ''The Butterfly Effect'' may be a little too unconventional to succeed with a mass audience, but filmgoers claiming they want 'something different' from Hollywood ought to take note.<ref>{{cite news |last= Kimmel |first= Daniel M. |title= Kutcher transforms into serious actor in dark ''Butterfly'' |work= ] |location= Worcester, Massachusetts |date= January 23, 2004 |url= http://infoweb.newsbank.com/iw-search/we/InfoWeb?p_product=AWNB&p_theme=aggregated5&p_action=doc&p_docid=10054EFEDEC667B0&p_docnum=14&p_queryname=1|page= C5 |access-date= May 7, 2013}}</ref>}}
Waking from this dream, Evan finds that the cigarette burn he experienced in this memory has appeared in the current reality. Talking with his mother, she implies that his father had the same ability to travel through time.


In a retrospective, ] of '']'' wrote that critics, including himself, were too harsh on the film at the time of its release. Describing the film as having been patronized, Bradshaw cited critical disdain for Kutcher as making the film uncool to like.<ref name=bradshaw>{{cite news|url=https://www.theguardian.com/film/filmblog/2009/aug/13/time-travelers-wife-butterfly-effect|title=Don't cast The Butterfly Effect to the winds of time|last=Bradshaw|first=Peter|work=]|date=August 13, 2009|access-date=June 1, 2016}}</ref>
Determined to learn more, Evan visits his childhood town to find Kayleigh. After a brief conversation, he starts asking about the video her father had forced them to do; his questions stir up very unpleasant memories, and the next day, Kayleigh commits ]. Evan extrapolates from his cigarette burn that he may be able to change the past through his diaries. He reads about the third blackout, jumps in the past and very effectively threatens George Miller into treating his daughter with respect and disciplining Tommy. The vision ends, and Evan returns to the present.


===The 2nd timeline=== ===Box office===
The film was a commercial success, earning $17,065,227 and claiming the #1 spot in its opening weekend.<ref>{{cite web |url=https://www.nbcnews.com/id/wbna4057480 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20121001184745/http://today.msnbc.msn.com/id/4057480/ns/today-entertainment/t/butterfly-effect-floats-top-box-office/ |url-status=live |archive-date=1 October 2012 |title='Butterfly Effect' floats to top of box office |publisher=AP |date=25 January 2004 |access-date=21 May 2011}}</ref> Against a $13 million budget, ''The Butterfly Effect'' grossed around $57,938,693 at the U.S. box office and $96,060,858 worldwide.<ref name="BOM" >{{mojo title|butterflyeffect|The Butterfly Effect}}</ref>
In this new ], Evan and Kayleigh are a couple. Kayleigh is a ] girl and Evan seems to be a leader in a ]. Kayleigh has come to Evan's place, because in this timeline, her father was good to her (due to Evan informing him about her suicide in her years to come). However, her brother Tommy, who has recently returned from the ], has become even more violent and disturbed, as his father just directed all his anger into abusing him instead of Kayleigh at any point. He traces Evan and Kayleigh and attempts to kill Evan. Evan manages to overcome Tommy using ] and kills him with a metal bat in his fury. The police arrive and apprehend Evan, who is put in prison.


===Accolades===
Evan persuades his religious cellmate to help him by producing ] much the same way as the cigarette burn before. He travels back at the age of seven in the classroom when he creates the disturbing drawing and impales his hands on paper pins. With his cellmate's help, Evan manages to get hold of his diaries and returns in the sixth blackout. He gives Lenny a sharp iron shard so he can cut the dog's rope. Moreover, he succeeds in talking Tommy into releasing the dog. At this time, Kayleigh's face has been disfigured. Suddenly, Lenny stabs Tommy with the shard, killing him. A glimpse of Lenny going catatonic is visible, then Evan wakes up.
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* ] - ''nominated''<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.saturnawards.org/nominations.html|title=Saturn Awards Nominations|date=2005-10-29|access-date=2017-05-28|url-status=dead|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20051029093056/http://www.saturnawards.org/nominations.html|archive-date=2005-10-29}}</ref>


;2004 ]
===The 3rd timeline===
* Pegasus Audience Award — Eric Bress, J. Mackye Gruber - ''won''<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.bifff.org/en/archive/film1.php?id=496|title=BIFFF - The Butterfly Effect (2004)|access-date=2017-08-11|url-status=bot: unknown|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20050117173509/http://www.bifff.org/en/archive/film1.php?id=496|archive-date=2005-01-17}}</ref>
Evan is back in his original dorm room. While his memories flash back, he discovers that Lenny is now kept in the asylum for killing Tommy. Going to visit him, Lenny reveals that he could tell Evan knew something bad was going to happen that day, and that he feels Evan should be locked up in his place. Evan travels back to his meeting with his father and asks him how to break the cycle. His father tells him that it is impossible; the only solution left is to stop and accept things as they are, saying that even now by coming back he could be killing his mother. When Evan persists, his father decides that the only way to stop Evan is to kill him and leaps over the table to strangle him.


;2004 ]
Evan returns to Kayleigh's house and asks her dad where she is, and discovers Kayleigh has become a prostitute and a visible drug addict. From talking to her, Evan supposes that if he could prevent the death of the woman and her baby from the mailbox explosion in the fifth blackout, Lenny wouldn't have gone insane, Tommy won't be killed and Kayleigh wouldn't have been traumatized. He returns to the past and rushes to the postbox. Tommy unexpectedly follows him and brings the woman to the ground. The explosion hits only Evan, although from a distance.
* Choice Movie: Thriller - ''nominated''<ref name=AnW>{{cite web|url=https://www.imdb.com/event/ev0000644/2004|title=Teen Choice Awards|publisher=IMDb|access-date=November 12, 2014}}</ref>


===The 4th timeline=== ==Home media==
As Evan slowly wakes up in his college dorm room, he sees Kayleigh in the other bed with Lenny, whom he mistakes for his old roommate. As the events and their changes come flooding back into Evan's mind, the scene pulls back to reveal Evan no longer has arms. Evan's arms had to be amputated and his legs became paralyzed as a result of the mailbox explosion. Kayleigh and Lenny are now together (Lenny appearing noticeably trimmer than other incarnations of himself during the film), and Tommy has become very religious. Evan reveals to Kayleigh how much he loves her. Kayleigh in turn tells Evan that the only reason she chose to live with her father was because if she had gone to live with her mother, she might never have seen Evan again. She further says that it may have been possible that they might have become lovers, given different circumstances. Distraught, and appearing to believe that all other characters are now better off in this timeline, Evan attempts to drown himself in a bathtub. Tommy runs into the bathroom and saves him. He then finds that in this timeline, his mother started smoking heavily after the accident, and now has ]. First, Evan returns to the moment when he grabbed the knife at the age of 7; he searches through the kitchen, looking for something with which to destroy the dynamite, but before he can do so, he returns to the future again. After this failure, Evan returns to the time of the third blackout in the Millers' basement, planning to destroy the stick of dynamite so it can never be planted in the mailbox. He lights it to threaten George Miller as before, but he drops it and Kayleigh picks it up. She is killed in the explosion.


===The 5th timeline=== ===Release===
The film was released on both VHS, as well as ] as the ] edition on July 6, 2004. This edition was released with the theatrical cut (113 minutes) on one side and the ] (120 minutes) on the other. The DVD also includes two ] ("''The Science and Psychology of the Chaos Theory''" and "''The History and Allure of Time Travel''"), a trivia subtitle track, ] by directors ] and ], ], and a short feature called "The Creative Process" among other things.<ref>{{cite web|url=https://www.amazon.com/Butterfly-Effect-Infinifilm-Ashton-Kutcher/dp/B0001Z52RU |title=The Butterfly Effect (Infinifilm Edition) (2004)|website=Amazon|date=12 September 2006 }}</ref>
Now Evan is kept in a ] for killing Kayleigh. Moreover, he is told that (in this timeline) his diaries never existed. However, by talking to the same doctor, he discovers that his father traveled through time by using an old photo album (which, similarly to the diaries in this timeline, is told by the doctor, no longer exists). He makes his last attempt to fix everything, using an old film about the first acquaintance with Kayleigh. Upon his meeting Kayleigh, Evan now threatens to kill her family unless she stays away from him to prevent their ever becoming friends. As Kayleigh runs away, terrified of the boy and crying to her mother, Evan whispers to her, "goodbye".


===The 6th timeline=== ===Alternative endings===
''The Butterfly Effect'' has four different endings that were shot for the film:
At last, everything is fine. Nothing stops Tommy and Kayleigh from moving to their mother's house, and they are raised properly. Tommy (once again) becomes quite religious. Lenny is Evan's roommate, as they study in the university. In order to save Kayleigh and the rest, Evan had to sacrifice her friendship. Evan burns all his diaries and films, as he is content enough with the present and recognizes the instability and delicate nature of the timeline. At the very end of the film, Evan passes by Kayleigh on a busy street in Manhattan. They notice each other and Kayleigh stops, but by the time Evan turns to look, she has already begun walking again. Although it is obviously painful, Evan realizes he must not follow her. The look on his face is grim and pale.
#The theatrical release ending shows Evan passing Kayleigh on the sidewalk, he sees her, and recognizes her, but keeps walking. She also has a brief moment of recognition but also keeps walking.
#The "happy ending" alternative ending shows Evan and Kayleigh stopping on the sidewalk when they cross paths. They introduce themselves and Evan asks her out for coffee.<ref>{{cite video|people = Ashton Kutcher (Executive Producer)|title = Happy Ending|publisher = New Line Cinema}}</ref>
#The "open-ended" alternative ending is similar to the one where Evan and Kayleigh pass each other on the sidewalk and keep walking, except this time Evan, after hesitating, turns and follows Kayleigh.<ref>{{cite video|people = Ashton Kutcher (Executive Producer)|title = Open Ending|publisher = New Line Cinema|medium = DVD}}</ref> This ending was utilized in the film's novelization, written by ] and published by Black Flame.
#The ] ending shows Evan watching the recording of his mother giving birth to him. He proceeds to go back in time to the day when he was born and then strangles himself inside his mother's uterus.


==Sequels==
===Director's cut===
'']'' was released on DVD on October 10, 2006. It was directed by ] and was largely unrelated to the original film. It features a brief reference to the first film in the form of a newspaper headline referring to Evan's father, as well as using the same basic time travel mechanics. It received a negative reception from Reel Film Reviews, which called it "An abominable, pointless sequel."<ref>{{citation|url=http://reelfilm.com/buttfly.htm#2|work=Reel Film Reviews|first=David|last=Nusair|title=The Butterfly Effect 2|access-date=May 28, 2017}}</ref>
The ] of the movie differs only a little from the theatrical version of the film, while providing a bit more detailed look at Evan's ability. Other than small extensions here and there, the added scenes include Evan's mother telling him about her ]s as well as a scene during the prison section of the movie where the prison guards are shown working with the particular prison gang that Evan comes into contact with. This results in the gang paying the guard in cigarettes, allowing them to get access into Evan's cell at night, with the implication being that they follow through with their previous threats and ] him. Another added element in the director's cut is when Evan's mother takes him to see a storefront psychic who tells Evan that he was born with no lifeline, that he was not meant to be. That he has no soul. Evan waves it off and takes back the money, and leaves.


The third installment in the series, '']'', was released by ] in 2009. This sequel follows the life of a young man who journeys back in time in order to solve the mystery surrounding his high school girlfriend's death. This film has no direct relation to the first two and uses different time travel mechanics. Reel Film Reviews characterized the third installment as "A very mild improvement over the nigh unwatchable ''Butterfly Effect 2''."<ref>{{citation|work=Reel Film Reviews|first=David|last=Nusair|access-date=May 28, 2017|url=http://reelfilm.com/buttfly.htm#3|title=The Butterfly Effect 3: Revelations}}</ref>
The ending of the film differs at the fifth timeline. In this version, Evan finds a film of his mother giving birth. He goes "into" the video, and kills himself in the womb by strangling himself with his umbilical cord, so that he will not interfere in anyone else's life again. This results in a stillbirth, and implies that the other stillbirths his mother experienced were similar children with the same curse and ability who grew up and created alternate timelines as well, and eventually came to the same conclusion that Evan did. Writer/directors Eric Bress and J. Mackye Gruber state in the film commentary that this was their original intention for the finale, as it emphasized Evan's choice of self-sacrifice for those he loves more than the original theatrical version. After Evan kills himself, the other people whose lives were originally mutilated by grief are briefly shown to be living their lives a bit happier (Evan's mother had told him that she was pregnant twice before him and that they were both stillbirths). In the last scene, a voiceover of his mother says that she was pregnant three times before. This is because Evan's mother is shown having a new child - a girl. She is saying to her new child, "before you I was pregnant three times", meaning that Evan is the third stillbirth. Kayleigh and Tommy go to live with their mother and lead a good life. They both graduate from college. Kayleigh gets married.


==See also==
Another ending (which the directors refer to as the "stalker ending" on the commentary) has Evan see Kayleigh on the same New York street, and recognizing her, decides to follow her, but the directors felt that this would show the character had learned nothing and no lasting sacrifice had been made at all, which was completely at odds with their original conception for the film's ending. Another ending featured the two meeting and making small talk, starting a friendship afresh. According to the commentary, the directors apparently never liked these more optimistic endings to begin with, and it was quickly discarded from consideration during editing.
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==References==
===Blackout timeline===
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Every time Evan changes his past, he goes to the exact moments when he blacked out. In the early sections of the film we watch young Evan black out several times. Later, we see an adult Evan travel back in time to possess his former childhood self; it is through these temporal journeys that Evan is able to create new distinct timelines. In the first timeline we witness, Evan simply blacks out traumatic moments; later, he is able to revisit these blackout moments by re-reading journal entries about them, which suggests that the blackouts could have been caused by his ability to revisit the past and he "blacks out" when his future self is revisiting his past self. As revealed in the fifth timeline, Evan only began writing the journal entries in response to the blackouts. Thus, the blackouts caused Evan to write the journal, which allowed Evan to travel back to the blackouts, which in turn caused the blackouts in the first place, which caused Evan to write the journal — a ].

==Cast==
*] as Evan Treborn
*] as Andrea Treborn
*] as Kayleigh Miller
*] as Lenny Kagan
*] as Tommy Miller
*] as Evan Treborn - 13
*] as Kayleigh Miller - 13
*] as Lenny Kagan - 13
*] as Tommy Miller - 13
*] as Evan Treborn - 7
*Sarah Widdows as Kayleigh Miller - 7
*] as Lenny Kagan - 7
*] as Tommy Miller - 7
*] as George Miller
*] as Carlos
*] as Jason Treborn
*] as Mrs. Boswell
*] as Thumper
*] as Heidi
*] as Spencer

==Production mistakes==
*When Evan is in the ]'s office as a ] under ], the light in the background is on, then it jumps to a different camera angle, then it jumps back to the previous shot and the light is off then all of a sudden is turned on. This is described in the commentary for the director's cut as a 'happy accident.'
*When Kayleigh, Tommy, Evan, and Lenny are putting the dynamite in the mailbox, Evan puts the cigarette on the blockbuster and says it should last Lenny two minutes, but his mouth says ten minutes. (Audio/visual unsynchronized)
*Evan is portrayed as a member of a fictional fraternity (Chi Phi Beta) in the movie. However, in the original script he is a brother of ] Fraternity which is a real fraternal organization. Although the final script changed this to portray the fictional fraternity, it is still shown in the credits that one of the members of the hazing scene was a "Pledge of Theta Chi."

==DVD release==
The DVD was released on ], ] in the ] edition. The Infinifilm edition was released with the theatrical cut (113 min.) on one side and the ] (120 min.) on the other.
*Beyond the Movie features:
*Documentaries:
**''The Science and Psychology of the Chaos Theory'' documentary
**''The History and Allure of Time Travel'' documentary
*Fact Track - Trivia Subtitle Track
*All Access Pass features:
*Filmmaker Commentary by directors Eric Bress and J. Mackye Gruber
*Deleted and alternate scenes
*''The Creative Process''
*Visual effects
*Storyboard gallery
*Original ]
*DVD-ROM features:
*Script-to-Screen (Director's Cut)
*Commentary digest
*Gallery
*Scene medleys
*Links:
**Link to original website
**Link to exclusive content at

==Sequel==
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The film was released on DVD on ], ], it was directed by ] and was largely unrelated. Special features include:
*Audio commentary by director ]
*Behind-the-scenes featurette

==Pop culture references==
*In the '']'' episode ''"]"'', ] states that the panic room he built in the family's attic was devised while watching ''The Butterfly Effect'' as a way to "escape to a place where this movie couldn't find me."
*The movie references '']'' in the scene in which bully Tommy at 13 (Jesse James) is tripped at the movie theater is shot identically to the scene in which bully Biff Tannen (Thomas F. Wilson) is tripped in Lou's Cafe in "Back to the Future" (1985), both being films about time travel.
*In '']'', after Bridget dumps Oliver, she burns all his memories of him in a can just like the end of ''The Butterfly Effect''

==Awards and nominations==
;] Academy of Science Fiction, Fantasy & Horror Films (]s)
*Nominated—]
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*Won—Pegasus Audience Award — Eric Bress, J. Mackye Gruber
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*Nominated—Choice Movie: Thriller

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2004 American science fiction thriller film This article is about the 2004 film. For the 1995 film, see The Butterfly Effect (1995 film). For the chaos theory concept, see butterfly effect. For other uses, see butterfly effect (disambiguation).
The Butterfly Effect
Theatrical release poster
Directed by
Written by
  • Eric Bress
  • J. Mackye Gruber
Produced by
Starring
CinematographyMatthew F. Leonetti
Edited byPeter Amundson
Music byMichael Suby
Production
companies
Distributed byNew Line Cinema
Release date
  • January 23, 2004 (2004-01-23)
Running time113 minutes
CountryUnited States
LanguageEnglish
Budget$13 million
Box office$96.8 million

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, with 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 a final outcome.

The film had a poor critical reception; however, it was a commercial success, generating box-office revenues of $96 million on a budget of $13 million. The film won the Pegasus Audience Award at the Brussels International Fantastic Film Festival, and was nominated for Best Science Fiction Film at the Saturn Awards and Choice Movie: Thriller in the Teen Choice Awards, but lost to Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind and The Texas Chainsaw Massacre, another film from New Line Cinema, respectively.

Plot

Growing up, Evan Treborn, his friends Lenny Kagan and Kayleigh Miller, and Kayleigh's brother Tommy suffered many severe psychological traumas that caused Evan to experience frequent amnesia. These traumas include being forced to create child pornography with Kayleigh by Tommy's father George, Evan nearly being strangled to death by his institutionalized father Jason before Jason is killed in front of him by guards, accidentally killing a mother and her infant daughter while playing with dynamite, and Tommy burning Evan's dog Crockett alive. Evan keeps meticulous journals of his day to day life as a coping mechanism.

Some time later, while entertaining a girl in his college dorm room, Evan discovers that he can time travel and redo parts of his past by reading his journals; his time-traveling episodes account for the frequent blackouts he experienced, since those are the moments when his older self occupied his consciousness.

After a traumatized Kayleigh commits suicide, Evan travels back in time and prevents George from molesting her. He comes back to a reality where he and Kayleigh are a happy couple in college, but discovers George ended up taking out all of his abusive tendencies on Tommy, who grew up to become even more violent and dangerous. When Evan is attacked by Tommy, he kills Tommy in self defense and is imprisoned. There, he manages to time travel once more after his mother brings him a journal during a visit.

Upon returning, Evan stops Tommy from killing Crockett, but Lenny, relentlessly bullied by Tommy and mentally unstable following the dynamite incident, kills Tommy with a metal shard. Following Tommy’s death, Evan wakes up in a new reality where Lenny has been institutionalized and Kayleigh is a drug-addicted prostitute. Evan travels back to prevent the dynamite accident; while Tommy shields the mother and baby from the blast, Evan is caught directly in the explosion.

In the new reality, Lenny and Kayleigh are happily in a relationship and Tommy has become religious, but Evan is a double amputee. His mother, stricken with grief over her son's injuries, began smoking obsessively and developed lung cancer. To save his mother and himself from this fate, Evan goes back to his childhood and prepares to discard the lit dynamite, but Kayleigh picks it up when it is smacked out of his hand by her father, and it explodes, killing her.

Evan awakens in a mental hospital and finds that his journals no longer exist and he has suffered irreversible brain damage due to the rigors of time travel. He discovers that his father had the same ability before losing the photographs that allowed him to time travel. Evan ultimately reasons that he and his friends will never have good futures as long as he keeps altering the past.

After escaping the hospital staff and barricading himself in an office, Evan uses an old home movie to travel back to the day he first met Kayleigh. He intentionally upsets her so that she and Tommy choose to live with their mother rather than their father in the wake of their parents' divorce. As a result, the siblings are not subjected to a destructive upbringing, and Lenny is never bullied.

Evan awakens in a college dorm room, where Lenny is his roommate. To ensure that his plan worked, he asks where Kayleigh is; Lenny does not know who Evan is referring to. Satisfied that his friends' futures are secure, Evan burns his journals and videos to avoid altering the past ever again.

Eight years later, in New York City, Evan and Kayleigh pass each other on the street, briefly look at each other, and continue walking.

Director's cut

The director's cut features a different ending. With his brain terribly damaged and aware that he is committed to a psychiatric facility where he will lose access to his time travel ability, Evan makes a desperate attempt to change the timeline by watching a family video, which shows his mother just before she was about to give birth to Evan. Evan travels back to that moment and strangles himself in the womb with his umbilical cord so as to prevent the multi-generational curse from continuing, consistent with an added scene where a psychic palm reader tells Evan "you have no lifeline" and that he does "not belong to this world". Kayleigh is then seen as a child in the new timeline having chosen to live with her mother instead of her father, and a montage suggests that the lives of the other childhood characters have become loving and less tragic.

Cast

Reception

Critical reception

Critical reception for The Butterfly Effect was generally poor. On review aggregator website Rotten Tomatoes, the film holds a 33% approval rating based on 172 reviews; the rating average is 4.8/10. The site's consensus reads: "The premise is intriguing, but it's placed in the service of an overwrought and tasteless thriller." On Metacritic, another review aggregator, it has a score of 30 out of 100 based on 35 reviews, indicating "generally unfavorable reviews". Audiences polled by CinemaScore gave the film an average grade of "B+" on an A+ to F scale.

Roger Ebert wrote that he "enjoyed The Butterfly Effect, up to a point" and that the "plot provides a showcase for acting talent, since the actors have to play characters who go through wild swings." However, Ebert said that the scientific notion of the butterfly effect is used inconsistently: Evan's changes should have wider reverberations. Sean Axmaker of the Seattle Post-Intelligencer called it a "metaphysical mess", criticizing the film's mechanics for being "fuzzy at best and just plain sloppy the rest of the time". Mike Clark of USA Today also gave the film a negative review, stating, "Normally, such a premise comes off as either intriguing or silly, but the morbid subplots (there's prison sex, too) prevent Effect from becoming the unintentional howler it might otherwise be." Additionally, Ty Burr of The Boston Globe went as far as saying, "whatever train-wreck pleasures you might locate here are spoiled by the vile acts the characters commit."

Matt Soergel of The Florida Times-Union rated it three stars out of four, writing, "The Butterfly Effect is preposterous, feverish, creepy and stars Ashton Kutcher in a dramatic role. It's a blast... a solidly entertaining B-movie. It's even quite funny at times..." The Miami Herald said, "The Butterfly Effect is better than you might expect despite its awkward, slow beginning, drawing you in gradually and paying off in surprisingly effective and bittersweet ways," and added that Kutcher is "appealing and believable... The Butterfly Effect sticks to its rules fairly well... overall the film is consistent in its flights of fancy." The Worcester Telegram & Gazette praised it as "a disturbing film" and "the first really interesting film of 2004," adding that Kutcher "carries it off":

Written and directed by Eric Bress and J. Mackye Gruber, who co-wrote Final Destination 2, this is much more intelligent than their earlier film would suggest... The Butterfly Effect may be a little too unconventional to succeed with a mass audience, but filmgoers claiming they want 'something different' from Hollywood ought to take note.

In a retrospective, Peter Bradshaw of The Guardian wrote that critics, including himself, were too harsh on the film at the time of its release. Describing the film as having been patronized, Bradshaw cited critical disdain for Kutcher as making the film uncool to like.

Box office

The film was a commercial success, earning $17,065,227 and claiming the #1 spot in its opening weekend. Against a $13 million budget, The Butterfly Effect grossed around $57,938,693 at the U.S. box office and $96,060,858 worldwide.

Accolades

2004 Academy of Science Fiction, Fantasy & Horror Films Saturn Award
2004 Brussels International Festival of Fantasy Film
  • Pegasus Audience Award — Eric Bress, J. Mackye Gruber - won
2004 Teen Choice Awards
  • Choice Movie: Thriller - nominated

Home media

Release

The film was released on both VHS, as well as DVD as the Infinifilm edition on July 6, 2004. This edition was released with the theatrical cut (113 minutes) on one side and the director's cut (120 minutes) on the other. The DVD also includes two documentaries ("The Science and Psychology of the Chaos Theory" and "The History and Allure of Time Travel"), a trivia subtitle track, filmmaker commentary by directors Eric Bress and J. Mackye Gruber, deleted and alternative scenes, and a short feature called "The Creative Process" among other things.

Alternative endings

The Butterfly Effect has four different endings that were shot for the film:

  1. The theatrical release ending shows Evan passing Kayleigh on the sidewalk, he sees her, and recognizes her, but keeps walking. She also has a brief moment of recognition but also keeps walking.
  2. The "happy ending" alternative ending shows Evan and Kayleigh stopping on the sidewalk when they cross paths. They introduce themselves and Evan asks her out for coffee.
  3. The "open-ended" alternative ending is similar to the one where Evan and Kayleigh pass each other on the sidewalk and keep walking, except this time Evan, after hesitating, turns and follows Kayleigh. This ending was utilized in the film's novelization, written by James Swallow and published by Black Flame.
  4. The director's cut ending shows Evan watching the recording of his mother giving birth to him. He proceeds to go back in time to the day when he was born and then strangles himself inside his mother's uterus.

Sequels

The Butterfly Effect 2 was released on DVD on October 10, 2006. It was directed by John R. Leonetti and was largely unrelated to the original film. It features a brief reference to the first film in the form of a newspaper headline referring to Evan's father, as well as using the same basic time travel mechanics. It received a negative reception from Reel Film Reviews, which called it "An abominable, pointless sequel."

The third installment in the series, The Butterfly Effect 3: Revelations, was released by After Dark Films in 2009. This sequel follows the life of a young man who journeys back in time in order to solve the mystery surrounding his high school girlfriend's death. This film has no direct relation to the first two and uses different time travel mechanics. Reel Film Reviews characterized the third installment as "A very mild improvement over the nigh unwatchable Butterfly Effect 2."

See also

References

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  8. Axmaker, Sean (22 January 2004). "'Butterfly Effect' is wrapped in a cocoon of grim absurdity". Seattle Post-Intelligencer. Retrieved Aug 12, 2017.
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