The Butterfly Effect was released in 2004. It was directed by Eric Bress and starred Ashton Kutcher and Amy smart. It won the Saturn Award for Best Science Fiction Film. It grossed more than $96.8million at the box office. The story takes place in the United states in 1998. Evan, who experienced sexual abuse as a child and was emotionally scarred, suffers from a condition that causes him to lose consciousness and short term memory when he is under heightened stress. The protagonist, who has the ability to return to the past, returns to the past many times to save his first love who committed suicide, and searches for a life where the woman can be happy. Inspired by the butterfly effect in chaos theory, this is both a science fiction suspense about how minor changes in the past can affect the future and a love story about the protagonist's single-minded love. It is true in the real world that one action can change another person's character 180 degrees. However, reality, unl...