included · Consciousness transfer

The Butterfly Effect

Eric Bress, J. Mackye Gruber · 113 minutes

A young man struggles to access sublimated childhood memories. He finds a technique that allows him to travel back into the past, to occupy his childhood body and change history. However, he soon finds that every change he makes has unexpected consequences.

Thriller, Science Fiction

Before you choose

What kind of time-travel story is this?

Temporal events and their consequences run throughout the story.

Meets the archive’s time-travel criteria. The mechanism is classified as Consciousness transfer.

Why the archive makes this assessment (spoilers)

Repeated returns to childhood generate alternate adult lives and cascading consequences throughout the story.

Evan revisits childhood by placing his adult mind in his younger body, altering later outcomes.

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An editorial assessment based on the archive’s documented plot research.

Scale, legacy & time

The scores

Titan131.8

Weighted archive score

Time-travel significance10/10

high confidence

Quality consensus7.4/10

Aggregate source ratings

How Titan works

Titan combines the archive’s quality, audience and legacy base with the significance of time travel. It is an index, not a score out of 100, and is distinct from the FMV archive’s scoring model.

Titan = base × [0.20 + 0.80 × (time-travel score ÷ 10)²]

This film: 131.85 base × 100.0% weighting.

Partial inputs flag incomplete source metadata. Provisional weighting flags a time-travel assessment that remains uncertain; it receives no additional confidence penalty.

The evidence

Research & sources

Research notes may reveal plot details.

These sources support the plot facts and catalog research. The numerical scores are the archive’s judgments, not ratings supplied by these sources.

Cast: Ashton Kutcher, Amy Smart, Melora Walters, Elden Henson, William Lee Scott

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Releases & formats

11 cataloged editions. Narrow by format, then check region, audio and subtitles. Missing specifications mean unknown, not absent.

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