#168 – The Butterfly Effect | Directed by Eric Bress and J. Mackye Gruber (with DeVaughn Taylor of Specter Cinema Club and The Pod and the Pendulum)

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Tune in as DeVaughn Taylor (Specter Cinema Club, The Pod and the Pendulum) teams up with Arthur to break down The Butterfly Effect, the 2004 sci-fi timey-wimey thriller that follows college student Evan Treborn on his zigzagging quest to travel through time and give himself and his loved ones the happiest lives possible. The 2000s-era ways in which this deals with surprisingly dark material, the outrageously evil depiction of one Tommy Miller, and the extra details of the director’s cut and the alternate endings comprise some of the topics for this episode.

Directed by Eric Bress and J. Mackye Gruber, The Butterfly Effect stars Ashton Kutcher, Amy Smart, Melora Walters, Elden Henson, William Lee Scott, Eric Stoltz, Ethan Suplee, Logan Lerman, John Patrick Amedori, Irina Gorovaia, Kevin G. Schmidt, Jesse James, Nathaniel DeVeaux, Kevin Durand, Callum Keith Rennie, Cameron Bright, Lorena Gale, and Camille Sullivan.

Spoilers start at 23:15

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