Director Eric Bress

The Butterfly Effect (2004) is an American sci-fi thriller written and directed by Eric Bress and J. Mackye Gruber. Growing up, Evan Treborn and his friends, Lenny Kagan and Kayleigh Miller, along with Kayleigh’s brother Tommy, experienced numerous psychological traumas that often left Evan with amnesia. These events included being coerced into participating in George Miller’s abusive behavior towards his children, being nearly strangled by his institutionalized father Jason Treborn (who is then killed by guards), accidentally causing the death of a mother and ...