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This article is about the film. For the chaos theory example, see Butterfly effect. For other uses, see Butterfly effect (disambiguation).
The Butterfly Effect

Theatrical release poster
Directed by
Eric Bress
J. Mackye Gruber
Produced by
Anthony Rhulen
Chris Bender
J.C. Spink
A.J. Dix
Toby Emmerich
Jason Goldberg
Ashton Kutcher
Written by
Eric Bress
J. Mackye Gruber
Starring
Ashton Kutcher
Amy Smart
Elden Henson
William Lee Scott
Melora Walters
Eric Stoltz
Ethan Suplee
Logan Lerman
Music by Michael Suby
Cinematography Matthew F. Leonetti
Editing by Peter Amundson
Studio Katalyst Films
Distributed by New Line Cinema
Release date(s)
January 23, 2004
Running time 113 minutes
120 minutes (Director's cut)
Country United States
Language English
Budget $13 million[1]
Box office $96,060,858[1]
The Butterfly Effect is a 2004 American science fiction psychological thriller film that was written and directed by Eric Bress and J. Mackye Gruber, starring Ashton Kutcher and Amy Smart. The title refers to the butterfly effect, a popular hypothetical example of chaos theory which illustrates how small initial differences may lead to large unforeseen consequences over time.
Kutcher plays 20-year-old student Evan Treborn, with Amy Smart as his childhood sweetheart Kayleigh Miller. He finds he has the ability to travel back in time to inhabit his former self and change the present. Having been the victim of several childhood traumas aggravated by stress-induced memory losses, he attempts to set things right for himself and his friends, but there are unintended consequences for all. The film draws heavily on flashbacks of the cast's lives at ages 7 and 13, and presents several alternate present-day outcomes as Evan attempts to change the past, before settling on a final outcome.
The film received a poor critical reception, but was nevertheless a commercial success, producing gross earnings of $96 million from a budget of $13 million. The...