TY - ADVS AU - Bender,Chris AU - Bress,Eric AU - Gruber,J.Mackye AU - Henson,Elden AU - Kutcher,Ashton AU - Lerman,Logan AU - Scott,William Lee AU - Smart,Amy AU - Stoltz,Eric AU - Suplee,Ethan AU - Walters,Melora ED - Filmengine (Firm) ED - New Line Cinema Corporation. ED - New Line Home Entertainment (Firm) TI - The butterfly effect SN - 0780647998 PY - 2004/// CY - [United States] PB - New Line Home Entertainment KW - Diaries KW - Authorship KW - Drama KW - DVD KW - Friendship KW - Time travel KW - Video recordings for the hearing impaired KW - Fantasy films KW - Feature films KW - Films for the hearing impaired KW - Thrillers (Motion pictures, television, etc.) N1 - Container states "Spanish subtitles" in error; Special features: additional and alternate ending scenes included in the Director's cut version; audio commentary with directors/screenwriters ; documentary/featurettes: The science and psychology of the chaos theory, The history and allure of time travel, The creative process, Visual effects; Infinifilm fact track; story boards; theatrical trailers; DVD-ROM features: script-to-screen, link to original website, etc; Widescreen (1.85:1) presentation; Theatrical version (ca. 114 min.) -- Director's cut (ca. 120 min.); Director of photography, Matthew F. Leonetti ; editor, Peter Amundson ; music, Michael Suby ; costume designer, Carla Hetland ; production designer, Douglas Higgins; Ashton Kutcher, Amy Smart, Eric Stoltz, William Lee Scott, Elden Henson, Logan Lerman, Ethan Suplee, Melora Walters; MPAA rating: R; for violence, sexual content, language and brief drug use N2 - Evan Treborn wants to be free of his disturbing childhood memories. As a young child, he often blacked out for long periods of time and would try to detail his life through journal writing. As a young adult, he revisits the journal entries to figure out the truth about his troubled childhood friends Kayleigh, Lenny, and Tommy. When he discovers he can travel back in time in order to set things right, he does so in order to save his beloved friends. But he discovers that for every change he makes in the past, there is an unexpected consequences in the future ER -