The Butterfly Effect **1/2

Cast: Ashton Kutcher, Amy Smart, William Lee Scott, Elden Henson, John Patrick Amedori, Eric Stoltz, Logan Lerman
Directors: Eric Bress, J. Mackye Gruber

College student Ethan Treborn has been experiencing blackouts since the age of seven. All these blackouts happen at moments of high stress, and yet there is nothing physically wrong with him. While reading through an old journal as an adult, he discovers that he can go back to certain periods of his youth a re-live certain events, and sometimes change the past. One time, after changing the past, a childhood friend named Kayleigh commits suicide because of his actions. From then on, he becomes obsessed with making things right again, but he quickly learns that this is easier said than done. The Butterfly Effect is Ashton Kutcher's first "dramatic" role, and he does a passable job. While not a bad film, I didn't care for some of the turns the story took with the characters as children, most blatantly nasty. There are some holes in the plot, but nothing too extreme.