Change one thing, change everything.
20-year-old Evan Treborn (Ashton Kutcher) has a problem.
Ever since he was a kid, he's been unable to remember the most significant events of his life. When he was seven, his mother caught him standing in the kitchen doorway with a butcher knife and he couldn't remember how he got there or why. He also didn't remember finger-painting the message, "Kill me before it's too late" in his kindergarten class.
His compulsive mother Andrea certainly doesn't know what to do. After all, Evan's father had the same kind of blackouts before he went insane. Doctors advise Andrea to have Evan keep a journal to test his memory on a daily basis. Now that he's twenty Evan is doing great. While he stinks at sports, he's a top student in university, no blackouts for years and he's put all the rumours about his father's illness behind him.
One night he brings a girl to his dorm room, gets drunk and agrees to read some of his old journals. While reading he passes out and dreams about the very thing he was reading. What Evan comes to discover is that he is capable of not only reliving, but changing the past.
Special Agent Matti
The butterfly effect is a science fiction action thriller that plays with the notion of cause and effect, and that effect can be affected by writing it down in a diary. It's like Back to the future without the laughs.
On the upside, you do get to see Ashton Kutcher in varying degrees of nudity.
MA 15+ (Medium level violence, adult themes)
114 minutes (1:54 hours)
Film: 11 March 2004
