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Ashton Kutcher and Amy Smart in The Butterfly Effect (2004)

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The Butterfly Effect

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Edited into

    • The Butterfly Effect: Deleted and Alternate Scenes (Video 2004)

      Deleted scenes cut from the film.
    • The Butterfly Effect: Director's Cut Ending (Video 2004)

      An alternate ending to the film.
    • The Butterfly Effect: Stalker Ending (Video 2004)

      An alternate ending to the film.
    • The Butterfly Effect: Happy Sappy Ending (Video 2004)

      An alternate ending to the film.

Featured in

    • Butterfly Effect: The Creative Process (Video 2004)

      Clips from the movie
    • Butterfly Effect: Visual Effects (Video 2004)

      Clips from the movie
    • Manual Para Atropelar Cachorro (Short 2005)

      Mojo drops the video case of the film
    • "The Rotten Tomatoes Show" Repo Men/The Bounty Hunter/The Runaways (TV Episode 2010)

      "Time Travel Movie" segment.
    • "The Rotten Tomatoes Show" The Best of Science Fiction Movies (TV Episode 2010)

      Clips shown as part of Brett's Time Travel movie

Features

    • Se7en (1995)

      The kids watch this film at the cinema.

Followed by

    • The Butterfly Effect 2 (2006)

    • The Butterfly Effect 3: Revelations (2009)

Referenced in

    • The Day After Tomorrow (2004)

      Seen advertised on a billboard
    • A Lot Like Love (2005)

      after bridget dumps oliver. he burns all his memories of her in a can just like the end of "The Butterfly Effect"
    • The Worst Horror Movie Ever Made (Video 2005)

      A poster for "The Butterfly Effect" is clearly visible in the background of one scene.
    • "Family Guy" Untitled Griffin Family History (TV Episode 2006)

      Peter mentions that he does not like this movie.
    • The Butterfly Effect 2 (2006)

      Nick Larson looks up Jason Treborn, the main character's father in the first film.

References

    • Back to the Future (1985)

      The scene in which bully Tommy at 13 (Jesse James) is tripped at the movie theater is shot identically to the scene in which bully Biff Tannen (Thomas F. Wilson) is tripped in Lou's Cafe in "Back to the Future" (1985), both being films about time travel.
    • Star Trek: Generations (1994)

      A character says he saw this at the cinema.
    • Dumb and Dumber (1994)

      A poster for it is in the theatre that the kids go to in 1995
    • The Usual Suspects (1995)

      There's a poster of this film at the cinema.
    • The Basketball Diaries (1995)

      There's a poster of this film at the cinema.

Remade as

    • The Butterfly Effect

      This is a remake of that movie.

Spoofed in

    • CIS: Chaoten im Sondereinsatz (TV Movie 2010)

      Flashback vision like this U.S. movie - back to the present: "Sorry, that was a flahback"

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