Storyline
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.
Directors
Cast
Ethan Suplee, Jesse James, Logan Lerman, Cameron Bright, Eric Stoltz, Amy Smart, Ashton Kutcher, Callum Keith Rennie, Kendall Cross, John Patrick Amedori, Daniel Spink, Elden Henson, Jesse Hutch, Melora Walters, William Lee Scott, Nathaniel DeVeaux, Kevin G. Schmidt, Irene Gorovaia, Lorena Gale, John Tierney, Ted Friend, John B. Lowe, Camille Sullivan, Tara Wilson, Bill Croft, Kevan Ohtsji, Meilani Paul, Grant Thompson
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Reviews
75
ReelViews
The ending is weak, and may be the result of the filmmakers writing themselves into a corner and not wanting to conclude things in a burst of nihilistic excess. Yet, even though it's a cheat, it retains a degree of resonance.
60
Film Threat
A terrific story, years in the making, that clearly stays true to the uncompromising vision of its creators. The results are on the screen.
60
Dallas Observer
As a thriller, The Butterfly Effect is iffy and uneven, but as a portrait of a people, it's effective and intriguing.
50
An entertaining piece of supernatural nonsense whose sheer audacity disarms all (well, nearly all) skepticism.
30
Variety
This overwrought and egregiously self-serious thriller about the poisonous fruit borne of child abuse grows more ridiculous by the quarter-hour and is poised for a theatrical life span scarcely longer than that of its eponymous insect.
