ButterflyAuthor: DVD Format: NTSC Release Date: 20 02 2001 Details: Amazon. ca Despite box office dominance during its opening weekend, The Butterfly Effect is better suited to guilty pleasure viewing at home. When writer directors Eric Bress and J. Mackye Gruber (who penned Final Destination 2) aren't breaking their own haphazard rules of logic, they're filling this sordid thriller with enough unpleasantness to make eternal damnation seem like an attractive