The Butterfly Effect, a cult film

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Director Eric Bress took ambitious turns in creating this mind-bending psychological thriller about time travel, with a captivating performance by Ashton Kutcher in the title role.

Bress explored in depth how the smallest changes in the past can alter the present in unforeseen ways.

Visually inventive sequences placed the audience inside Kutcher's jumbled memories.


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Kutcher's disappearance down the rabbit hole of his fractured mind was a shocking star turn; by the end of the film, nothing was as it seemed, reflecting the disorienting nature of trauma and our limited understanding of causality.

Jennifer Garner and Melissa George brought humanity to the timelines that plunge into darkness, their empathy with Kutcher's plight giving rise to an escalation of surrealism.

While exploitative to some, Bress tackled prescient debates about memory, identity and the resilience of the human spirit that have elevated this small-budget film to the status of a mind-blowing cult classic.


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At its heart, it is a brave and uncompromising production, which I admire for daring to change psychological and genre conventions rather than playing it safe. A must-see for any open-minded cinephile.

The film did very well at the box office with a budget of $9 million, grossing $57 million worldwide.



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Always loved this film. This part:
"Kutcher's disappearance down the rabbit hole of his fractured mind was a shocking star turn; by the end of the film, nothing was as it seemed, reflecting the disorienting nature of trauma and our limited understanding of causality.
Jennifer Garner and Melissa George brought humanity to the timelines that plunge into darkness, their empathy with Kutcher's plight giving rise to an escalation of surrealism,"
really captures both, the beauty and the uniqueness of it. A phenomenal noughties' cinema.

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