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The Butterfly Effect
MEANRANK
70/100
Where it ranks
- Mean Score #2285
- IMDb #800
- Google retired #1049
- Rotten Tomatoes #3258
- Metacritic #3759
- Letterboxd #1741
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- Rotten Tomatoes Critics #4540
- Rotten Tomatoes Audience #1510
- Metacritic Critics #4758
- Metacritic Audience #737
- Criticker #1695
- Douban #78
- Kinopoisk #119
- AlloCiné #319
- Trakt #589
Every rating
Split
Lowest is Metacritic critics on 30, highest is Google on 90. Critics average 32, everyone else 78.
See the films the platforms disagree about most →A young man discovers he has a unique ability to travel back in time and inhabit his younger body. He begins revisiting traumatic childhood memories in an attempt to change the past and fix things for his friends and himself. However, each alteration he makes in the past has severe and unexpected consequences in his present life.
Details
- Directors
- Eric Bress, J. Mackye Gruber
- Writers
- Eric Bress, J. Mackye Gruber
- Studio
- FilmEngine, Katalyst Films, BenderSpink, New Line Cinema
- Released
- 17 January 2004
- Country
- United States
- Language
- English
- Runtime
- 113 min
- Rated
- R
- Budget
- $13.0M
- Box office
- $96.8M
- Awards
- 1 win, 2 nominations
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Cast
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Awards & nominations
See all 3 →1 win from 3 nominations across 3 ceremonies
| Brussels International Festival of Fantasy Film 2004 | Pegasus Audience Award | Eric Bress and J. Mackye Gruber | Winner |
| Saturn Awards 2004 | Best Science Fiction Film | Nominee | |
| Teen Choice Awards 2004 | Choice Movie: Thriller | Nominee |
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3 awards — The Butterfly Effect
×| Pegasus Audience Award | Eric Bress and J. Mackye Gruber | Winner |
| Best Science Fiction Film | Nominee |
| Choice Movie: Thriller | Nominee |