The Butterfly Effect

Trivia: An alternate ending to the film on the DVD Director's cut has Evan going back to when he was in the womb and killing himself by squeezing the umbilical cord to save his friends from events he may cause.

Nick N.

Trivia: The main character's full name is Evan Treborn. This is very close to "event reborn", which sums up the point of the movie.

Trivia: When Evan is a frat boy and sees his jacket on the ground before Tommy arrives,. the arms are folded exactly the way his arms are blown up later.

Trivia: The prisoners in the prison scenes of the movie were real-life criminals. The directors decided to use 125 real criminals in the prison they were shooting at to add a level of realism. This is in the DVD special features.

Trivia: The name of the film comes from the Ray Bradbury novel "A sound of thunder" a time travel book.

oswal13

Continuity mistake: When Evan tries to get his journals back from the bullies in the jail, the object that the guy on the bed is reading alternates from a closed copy of Hustler, to a journal and back several times. (01:18:35 - 01:19:20)

SexyIrishLeprechaun

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Dr. Redfield: Just think of your mind as a movie, you can pause, rewind or slow down any details you want.

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Question: What is the song when Evan is in the lecture room talking with his professor and then he rides his bike to his dorm? Not the Ap2, but it sounds like an electric guitar with distortion and an acoustic guitar.

Answer: The Shazam app on my phone didn't recognize it, so it is probably just some nameless incidental music composed for the movie.

Phaneron

Hear You Me, performed by Jimmy Eat World.

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