The Butterfly Effect watch order
There are 3 The Butterfly Effect films, about 4.9 hours in total. The first was released in 2004, the latest in 2009. Watching in release order is the safest way to meet the story as audiences did.
The Butterfly Effect movies are about an individual who travels through time, and then has to deal with unexpected consequences. The title refers to the butterfly effect, a popular hypothetical example of chaos theory which illustrates how small initial differences may lead to large unforeseen consequences over time.
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The Butterfly Effect (2004)
17 Jan 2004 · 113 min
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.
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The Butterfly Effect 2 (2006)
17 Aug 2006 · 92 min
After his girlfriend, Julie, and two best friends are killed in a tragic auto accident, Nick struggles to cope with his loss and grief. Suffering from migraine-like seizures, Nick soon discovers that he has the power to change the past via his memories. However, his time-traveling attempts to alter the past and save his one true love have unexpected and dire consequences.
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The Butterfly Effect 3: Revelations (2009)
9 Jan 2009 · 90 min
The story revolves around a man trying to uncover the mysterious death of his girlfriend and save an innocent man from the death chamber in the process, by using his unique power to time travel. However in attempting to do this, he also frees a spiteful serial-killer.
Order and dates from TMDB collection data. Unreleased entries are added once they get a release date.