The Butterfly Effect

Graphic violence, violent situations, disturbing scenes. (Warning: Some spoilers.) A powerful firecracker placed in a mailbox by tweens as a prank results, in one reality, in the death of a mother and baby; in another instance, in the lead character losing his hands, forearms. Suicide, attempted suicide. A dog is tied up in a sack, covered with lighter fluid, set on fire, and killed by a sadistic tween. A young man is beaten to death with a baseball bat. Child molestation strongly implied -- not shown, but aftermath discussed by victims years later. Prison rape implied. Lead character, serving time in prison, is on the verge of performing oral sex on two inmates before he stabs them. A young man is beaten. A lead character is shown as a tween killing another lead character with a large piece of scrap metal. A father with mental illness attacks his son in the mental hospital, choking him. Bullying -- frat boys pick on a goth punk in a bar; the goth punk retaliates by shooting a cue ball from the pool table at them, then breaking off the stick of his pool cue and threatening them. Fraternity pledges shown getting hazed. A teacher shows a mother a drawing her young son made of the boy killing his father with a knife; he is shortly after shown in the kitchen holding a large knife. A diner waitress is sexually harassed by a customer, who grabs her rear end.

Female and male nudity, full frontal. Talk of sex, and various sex acts. College student often walks in on his roommate having sex with his girlfriend. Post-coital sex talk. Tweens shown looking at pornographic magazines. Lead character brings a girl back to his dorm room; they start to engage in foreplay but stop when lead character's issues with blacking out occur once again.

Constant profanity used by adults, tweens, and teens. "F--k," "s--t," "ass," "puss out." "F--got" used by tween. In a scene with white supremacists in a prison cell, lead character uses the racial slurs "s--ck," the "N" word.

In one of the alternate realities explored by the lead character, the female lead is a drug addict and prostitute. Lead character's roommate shown smoking out of a giant bong. Tweens and adults smoke cigarettes. Woman shown dying in a hospital due to smoking. A pedophile father drinks whiskey while attempting to film his daughter and her friend in a state of undress. College drinking.