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The Butterfly Effect - Director's Cut [DVD]

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Ashton Kutcher (Actor), Amy Smart (Actor), Eric Bress (Director), Rated: Suitable for 15 years and over Format: DVD
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  • Actors: Ashton Kutcher, Amy Smart, William Lee Scott, Melora Walters, Elden Henson
  • Directors: Eric Bress, J. Mackye Gruber
  • Producers: Chris Bender, A.J. Dix, Anthony Rhulen, J.C. Spink
  • Format: DVD-Video, PAL
  • Language: English
  • Region: Region 2 (This DVD may not be viewable outside Europe. Read more about DVD formats.)
  • Aspect Ratio: 16:9 - 1.78:1
  • Number of discs: 1
  • Classification: 15
  • Studio: Icon Home Entertainment
  • DVD Release Date: 23 April 2007
  • Run Time: 113 minutes
  • Average Customer Review: 4.2 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (199 customer reviews)
  • ASIN: B000MX7YN6
  • Amazon Bestsellers Rank: 10,024 in DVD & Blu-ray (See Top 100 in DVD & Blu-ray)

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Psychological thriller starring Ashton Kutcher as Evan Treborn, a young man who, from an early age, has struggled with his disturbing childhood memories. As a boy, Evan was encouraged by a psychologist to keep a journal detailing the events of his day-to-day life, and now, as a young adult, he revisits these journals to figure out the truth about events that ended in tragedy for his childhood friends Lenny (Elden Henson) and Tommy (William Lee Scott), and the childhood sweetheart Kayleigh (Amy Smart) with whom he is still in love. Evan makes the incredible discovery that he can use the notebooks as a vehicle enabling him to journey back into the past so that his adult mind occupies the body of his childhood self. He begins a series of attempts to re-direct history with the aim of saving his friends and loved ones from the traumas that have befallen them. But every time Evan changes something in the past, however small, he finds when he returns to the present that his actions have had unexpected and disastrous consequences. The harder he tries to make things go right, the less able he seems to create a reality that allows him and Kayleigh to live happily ever after.

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5.0 out of 5 starsBrilliant but unbearably sad
By Marshall Lord TOP 500 REVIEWER on 8 Jun. 2007
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This is an extremely clever, moving and well acted film, and a good antidote to the type of film in which changing the past is made to appear relatively straightforward. But it packs a major sting in the tail and is not one to watch if you want to be cheered up.

The title "The Butterfly effect" is a reference to the behaviour of sensitive systems under chaos theory, and the film starts with the famous quote about how the flap of a butterfly's wings can cause a tornado on the other side of the world six months later. The film could almost have been subtitled "Or: The Law of Unintended Consequences."

The central character is Evan, a boy whose father and grandfather died in mental hospitals and who appears to have inherited a strange condition from them. Evan is portrayed brilliantly as a young adult by Ashton Kutcher, as a 7-year old by Logan Lerman, and as a teenager by John Patrick Amedori.

As a boy Evan has blackouts at times of extreme stress when he does things which can be very strange and scary, and then has no memory of them. To try to help with this, his mother (Melora Walters) encourages him to keep a daily journal.

Evan grows up to become a brilliant student, and then discovers than by reading his diaries and concentrating he can send his consciousness, including his adult memories, back to the time he was reading about. Then he realises that he can try to change the past.

After the suicide of his childhood friend Kayleigh (played as an adult by Amy Smart) Evan sends his mind back to a traumatic childhood event, which he correctly identifies as the start of the process which put Kayleigh on the path to despair and premature death.Read more ›
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4.0 out of 5 stars"We're all in the same time zone here".
By @GeekZilla9000 TOP 500 REVIEWERVINE VOICE on 24 Nov. 2011
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Young Evan is a cause for concern, finding himself involved with violent happenings and seemingly entering altered states of mind where he has on control of his actions. With gaps in his memory occurring more frequently his mother hopes that he hasn't inherited his father's mental illness. A series of traumatising events in his childhood make a convincing case for it all being stress related. The film follows Evan during several stages of his life, pre-teen, teen, and student - the latter being a time of celebration as it's been 7 years since his last blackout, but now he's experiencing suppressed memories, filling in the blanks, or so it seems...

Butterfly effect explores how having the ability to go back into your past and influence your actions has major repercussions as the life you knew from that point onward never existed - slight changes in Evan's past mean that the entire course of his life has changed, a different house, a different girlfriend, different friends - but going back and doing the right thing doesn't guarantee a happy ending or that you'll be a better person in the future. There's a 'Quantum Leap' element to this as Evan finds himself correcting injustices more for a sense of correcting the inequity of life rather than personal gain but it doesn't always go to plan, every change which results in a different set of circumstances simply means that life produces different victims, and he always feels responsible because he knows that their situation was caused as a direct result of the pivotal moment that he orchestrated.Read more ›
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5.0 out of 5 starsButterfly Effect
By A Customer on 29 July 2004
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Despite mixed reviews prior to seeing this, I thought this film was an absolute gem. The cast were well introduced at the start and you were led thru the film with mysterious gaps which were filled later on, shocking the audience at times. Subject matter was occasionally difficult but this made it all the more believeable in our hero's responses. Anything that offers a temporal paradox allows the mind to fulfil the 'whatif' question. It gets you thinking but this movie was difficult to 2nd guess which in my view makes for a great and unpredictable film rather than one where I'm climbing the walls waiting for it to end so I can get on with my life. Enjoy!
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3.0 out of 5 starsDitch the beard, find happiness
By Four Violets VINE VOICE on 27 Aug. 2013
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**CONTAINS ALTERNATIVE ENDING SPOILERS**

Evan, played by Ashton Kutcher, goes through childhood experiencing strange black outs, and is advised to keep a journal. When he is older he realises he can "go back in time" to those occasions just by reading those parts of his journal. He deliberately chooses to go back to pivotal moments so that he can try and adjust the future - for his troubled friend Kayleigh (Amy Smart) in particular.

So far so "believable" - so far as a film goes. I was happy enough to "believe" in Groundhog Day, Big, and The Time Travellers Wife etc.

What made me so uncomfortable watching The Butterfly Effect was firstly: the unpleasant violence and aggression. Lenny, Kayleigh's brother, is a caricature of a young psychopath - I found it impossible to believe he wouldn't have been institutionalised. The creepy rapist guys in prison (surely lifted straight out of The Shawshank Redemption), the fat miserable kid, the doc in the white coat, the girl next door - they are all comic strip characters, and I couldn't believe in any of them for a moment. As for Ashton, I don't know if it was because of his strange stick-on looking beard, but I failed to understand a word he was saying, he mumbled so much.

Second sticking point: I thought the acting of the entire cast was pretty dire, although Amy Smart made a valiant effort as did the ever reliable Eric Stoltz as the abusive father of Lenny and Kayleigh.

Only the fact I had paid for the DVD, and occasional flashes of black humour, kept me watching to the end. Then I discover I have been watching the Director's Cut, and curiosity takes me to wiki to find out the alternative endings (as they are NOT all on "deleted scenes").Read more ›
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