Release Date: April 30th
Directors: Eric Bress, J. Mackye Gruber
Casting Couch: Amy Smart, Ashton Kutcher Elden Henson, Eric Stoltz
and Melora Walters
Distributor: Icon
Certificate: 15
Ashton Kutcher stars as Evan Treborn, a young and
happy man who shares his life with his beautiful young girlfriend Kayleigh
(Amy Smart). However Evan's happiness is disturbed by troubling flashbacks
of his childhood. When Evan's girlfriend dies he is devastated and would
do anything to bring her back. Slowly he begins to realise that he can manipulate
the flashbacks to his childhood and by channeling the mystic energy that
they create Evan is able to travel back in time end take the place of his
younger self.
Evan, of course, is desperate to harness this power in order to prevent his
girlfriend from dying. But in travelling back and attempting to change the
course of history Evan's actions lead to ever worsening consequences. This
is reflective of the film's title-the philosophical notion that a butterfly's
wings can cause a chain reaction leading to a hurricane. Each time Evan sends
the course of history off-line he is compelled to go back again, making things
increasingly worse. What Evan must come to terms with is that his girlfriend
is gone, because even when he averts her death, events conspire to keep them
apart. Moreover his actions are becoming increasingly detrimental to others.
Co-written and directed by Eric Brass and J. Mackye Gruber, '
The Butterfly Effect' is a dark sci-fi drama
with high aspirations and much to say on the consequences of individual human
action.
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