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Aspect Ratio: 1.85:1 Audience Rating: R (Restricted) Binding: DVD Brand: NEW LINE CINEMAS EAN: 9780780647992 Format: AC-3, Anamorphic, Color, Director's Cut, Dolby, DTS Surround Sound, Dubbed, DVD-Video, Widescreen, NTSC ISBN: 0780647998 Label: New Line Home Entertainment Manufacturer: New Line Home Entertainment Number Of Items: 1 Publisher: New Line Home Entertainment Region Code: 1 Release Date: July 06, 2004 Running Time: 113 minutes Studio: New Line Home Entertainment Theatrical Release Date: January 23, 2004 Sales Rank: 6258 MPN: 794043717321
Description: A young man struggling to access sublimated childhood memories finds a technique that allows him to travel back to the past. Occupying his childhood body, he is able to change history. But every change he makes has unexpected consequences.
DVD Features: Additional Scenes:included in the Director's Cut Version of the film Alternate endings:included in the Director's Cut version of the film Audio Commentary:with Director and Screenwriters Eric Bress and J. Mackye Gruber DVD ROM Features:Script-to-Screen Link to original Website Exclusive On-disc ROM Content Exclusive content at infinifilm.com Deleted Scenes:with commentary Documentaries:--The Science and Psychology of the Chaos Theory --The History and Allure of Time Travel Featurette:--The Creative Process --Visual Effects Other:infinifilm Fact Track DIRECTOR'S CUT OF THE FILM--only on DVD (120 minutes) DTS ES 6.1 Sound Storyboards Theatrical Trailer
Amazon.com: 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
Customer Reviews
Average Rating:
Rating: - Poorly Executed, But Still Worth Watching
Overall, I liked The Butterfly Effect, but it feels poorly executed. Until the movie started really getting interesting, it felt cliche, had a knack for getting under my skin, and was laughable at the ... Read More
Rating: - Good value, good movie
$8.99 is an excellent deal for this movie. It's very original, and Kutcher and Smart play their parts perfectly. If you liked this movie in theaters then definitely buy this because it's a classic movie ... Read More
Rating: - Wonderful
This movie is a really good! I recommend everyone to watch it. It had me do a lot of thinking like, "What if I were him?" I've watched it so many times. BUY THE DVD. You won't be disappointed.
Rating: - Psychological time travel
What if you could change your past:
remove that very bad thing that happened to you
or your friends when you were young and foolish?
The journals that he started when the blackouts began ... Read More
Rating: - What a Trip
Asthon Kutcher gives the performace of a lifetime in this supernaturally charged thriller! It is very intense and dramatic and at times incredibley dark and disturbing. The script was intelligent and well ... Read More
- Poorly Executed, But Still Worth Watching
- Good value, good movie