Time Signatures

Back to the Future Part II is a 1989 film and a sequel to the 1985 film Back to the Future. Like the previous film, it was directed by Robert Zemeckis and written by Zemeckis and Bob Gale. Part II and the third installment of the trilogy, Back to the Future Part III, were filmed back-to-back, with some of the scenes of Parts II and III filmed concurrently, and released six months apart. Although released in 1989 and 1990, both films continued to portray 1985 as the present, due to them directly following the events of the first film.

Part II follows the continued adventures of Marty McFly and “Doc” Emmett Brown as they use their time-traveling DeLorean to travel into a retro-futuristic version of 2015, an alternative 1985 and the principal setting of the first film in 1955. The film ends with a cliffhanger that is resolved in Part III.
Plot
Continuing from the end of Back to the Future, “Doc” Brown (Lloyd) arrives in 1985 from the future and tells Marty McFly (Fox) and his girlfriend Jennifer Parker (Elisabeth Shue) that he needs their help to save their kids in the future. They depart in the flying DeLorean time machine as Biff Tannen (Thomas F. Wilson) witnesses the departure. In 2015, Doc electronically hypnotizes Jennifer and leaves her in an alley to keep her away from his plan. Meanwhile, Doc has Marty pose as his son, Marty McFly, Jr., to refuse a deal from Biff’s grandson, Griff Tannen, which would result in the arrest of Marty Jr. and his sister Marlene. Marty refuses the deal, but Griff goads Marty into a fight; Marty escapes the fight and leads Griff and his gang on a hoverboard race across the courtyard square, ultimately resulting in Griff and his gang crashing through the courtyard windows and changing the future history. On his way back to meet with Doc, Marty purchases an almanac detailing results from major sporting events of the last half of the 20th century. Doc discovers the purchase and accuses Marty of trying to profit from time travel, but before Doc can dispose of the sports book, they are forced to follow the police who have found Jennifer and are taking her to her future home. Old Biff, overhearing the conversation and recalling the DeLorean from 1985, follows with the discarded book.

Jennifer wakes up in her future home and hides while the collected McFly family has dinner together. She overhears that Marty’s life, as well as their life together, is less than they expected due to a car accident that Marty got in many years prior, after being challenged by his friend Needles. As she watches, older Marty is goaded in a shady business deal by Needles and is immediately fired from his job, as announced by numerous faxes (one copy which Jennifer keeps). While escaping the house, Jennifer meets her older self and faints; as Doc and Marty run to retrieve the younger Jennifer, Old Biff steals the DeLorean, travels time, and returns. Doc, Marty, and Jennifer return to 1985, unaware of Biff’s actions, and leave Jennifer on the porch at her home.

Doc and Marty soon discover that this 1985 has changed dramatically, as Biff Tannen has become incredibly wealthy and converted Hill Valley into his own personal paradise. Biff has killed Marty’s father, George, and has forced his mother Lorraine to marry him; Doc has been committed to an insane asylum. Doc finds evidence of the sports almanac and Biff’s trip to the past in the DeLorean, and tells Marty he needs to learn when younger Biff received the almanac so they can go back and correct the timeline. Marty confronts Biff regarding the almanac; Biff explains that he received the book from an old guy on November 12, 1955, the same day as the lightning storm that struck the clock tower and the “Enchantment Under the Sea” dance. Biff also reveals that the old man told him to watch for Marty or Doc looking for the book, and attempts to kill Marty. Doc is able to save Marty, and with new information, the two return to 1955.

Marty works undercover to trail Biff; he is present when Old Biff arrives to give Biff the book, but is unable to retrieve it. Marty is forced, with Doc’s help, to try to get the book back during the dance, being careful to avoid undoing the events that he had already corrected in his previous trip. Eventually, Biff leaves the dance, and Doc and Marty follow him silently, Marty using the hoverboard while tethered to the flying DeLorean by a string of banners. Marty distracts Biff long enough to grab the book, causing Biff to, yet again, crash into a truckload of manure.

With the storm approaching, Doc is unable to set down the DeLorean, and instructs Marty over walkie-talkies to burn the almanac. Upon doing so, their evidence from 1985 returns to what they expect, and all appears to be well. However, as Marty watches, the DeLorean is struck by lightning and disappears. Nearly immediately afterwards, a courier from Western Union arrives and gives Marty a 70-year old letter; Marty discovers the letter is from Doc, who ended up in 1885 after the lightning strike. Marty races back into town and finds the 1955 version of Doc, celebrating the success of having sent the earlier version of Marty back to 1985, and is shocked and faints when Marty approaches him. The film continues in Back to the Future: Part III

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Back to the Future Part III is a 1990 film and the third and final installment of the Back to the Future trilogy. The film is a science fiction western, using the time travel premise of the series to take Marty McFly (Michael J. Fox) and Dr. Emmett Brown (Christopher Lloyd) back to the Old West of 1885.

Plot
The story continues in 1955, from the final scene of Back to the Future Part II. Doc, shocked to see Marty back from the future, promptly collapses, leaving Marty to take him back to the Brown mansion to recover. Once Doc revives, Marty and Doc use the information in Doc’s 1885 letter to retrieve and repair the damaged DeLorean. However, as they retrieve the car, Marty spies a tombstone with Doc’s name, dated a few days after the letter; after learning Doc was killed by Biff Tannen’s ancestor, Buford “Mad Dog” Tannen, Marty decides to go back to 1885 and save Doc.

Marty arrives in 1885 in the middle of a United States Cavalry pursuit of Indians; in his attempts to evade the pursuit, the car’s fuel line is torn, and Marty must abandon the car in a cave. While walking to Hill Valley, Marty meets his great-great-grandfather Seamus; to disguise his identity, Marty adopts the name “Clint Eastwood”. In town, Marty runs afoul of Buford and his gang, who try to hang Marty, but Doc saves him. Doc agrees to leave 1885, but discovers that with the fuel tank in the DeLorean empty and the flying circuits destroyed, there is no way to power the car. Doc devises a scheme to use a locomotive to push the DeLorean up to speed. As Doc and Marty explore the rail spur they intend to use, they spot an out-of-control horse-drawn wagon; Doc saves the passenger, who turns out to be Clara Clayton. The two fall in love, finding many common interests, especially the works of Jules Verne. Buford tries to kill Doc at a town festival over a grudge, but Marty intervenes; Buford then goads Marty into a showdown in two days’ time. Consulting the picture of Doc’s tombstone, they note that Doc’s name has disappeared, but the tombstone – and the date upon it – has not changed.

The night before their departure, Doc tells Clara he is from the future; a disbelieving Clara spurns Doc. Heartbroken, Doc returns to the town saloon to get drunk. Marty rides to the saloon and convinces Doc to leave with him; unfortunately, Doc drinks a single shot of whiskey to celebrate his departure and passes out. Buford arrives and tries to call Marty out, hurling insults at him; Marty realizes that his reputation is unimportant and refuses to fight Buford. Doc revives and tries to flee with Marty, but Buford’s gang spots them and captures Doc, forcing Marty to fight to save Doc’s life. Marty first uses a firebox door from a stove as a bullet-proof shield, and then hits Buford in the face with it. During the ensuing fistfight, Buford destroys the tombstone (which vanishes from Marty’s picture), is knocked unconscious, and is then arrested. With Buford no longer a threat, Marty and Doc ride after and steal the locomotive.

Clara, meanwhile, is leaving town on the train when she overhears a salesman discussing a man he’d met in the saloon, utterly despondent about his lost love; realizing the man was Doc, and that he was still in love with her, Clara triggers the emergency brake and runs back to town. She discovers Doc’s model of the time travel experiment and rides out after him. Clara intercepts and boards the speeding locomotive while Doc is climbing his way towards the DeLorean. Doc encourages Clara to climb out to him, intending to bring her with them to 1985. Just then, the locomotive’s boiler explodes; Clara falls off the side of the locomotive and hangs precariously by her dress. Marty passes Doc his hoverboard from 2015; Doc saves Clara, but can’t catch up to the locomotive. The DeLorean disappears through time, while the locomotive roars over the edge of the incomplete bridge and is demolished.

Marty arrives safely in 1985, but the powerless DeLorean is destroyed seconds later when a freight train strikes it head-on. While driving his pickup truck later that day, Marty avoids being goaded into a street race with Needles, thereby avoiding a potential automobile accident. Remembering what Marty’s parents had said in 2015 about that event ruining Marty’s life forever, Jennifer opens a fax message from 2015 and finds the message “YOU’RE FIRED!” erased. Marty takes Jennifer to the time machine wreckage, but as they survey the remains, a steam-powered locomotive equipped with a giant flux capacitor appears, manned by Doc, Clara, and their children, Jules and Verne. Doc gives Marty a gift—a photo of the two of them by the clockworks at the 1885 festival—and explains to Jennifer that their future is for them to create. Doc’s train then converts into a flying train and roars directly into the camera, finishing the trilogy.

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Beastmaster 2: Through the Portal of Time is the 1991 sequel to the 1982 cult classic film “The Beastmaster”, starring Marc Singer.

Plot Summary
Dar, the Beastmaster, is back and now he has to deal with his half-brother, Arklon, and a sorceress named Kyranna who have escaped to present day Los Angeles. Dar must follow them through the time portal and stop them from conquering the world, along his visit, Dar meets a rich girl named Jackie Trent and they become friends.

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Biggles: Adventures in Time is a 1986 adventure film based on the character of Biggles from the series of novels written by Captain W.E. Johns. The film stars Neil Dickson as Biggles, Alex Hyde-White as Jim Ferguson and Peter Cushing as William Raymond in his final feature film role

Plot
Unassuming catering salesmen Jim Ferguson falls through a time hole to 1917 where he saves the life of dashing Royal Flying Corps pilot James “Biggles” Bigglesworth after his photo recon mission is shot down. Before he can work out what has happened, Jim is zapped back to the 1980s. With assistance from Biggles’ former commanding officer Raymond (Peter Cushing) who lives in the Tower Bridge in London, Ferguson learns that he and Biggles are “time twins”, spontaneously travelling through time when one or the other is in mortal danger. Together, Ferguson and Biggles fight across time and against the odds to stop the Germans changing the course of history by destroying a “Sound Weapon” with a Metropolitan police helicopter that was stolen by Biggles while escaping a SWAT Team in 1986 London.

The film is notably unfaithful to the original works. In addition to the introduction of a science-fiction plot, the continuity of the Biggles universe was largely ignored: for example, even within the film’s chronology Peter Cushing’s character would have been almost 100 years old in the 1980s (he appears much younger), while Biggles in the film was somewhat older (in the books, he was only a teenager in 1917), and the characters Ginger and Bertie, who feature in this film, did not actually join Biggles until later, although the presence of Biggles’ friend Algy, adversary Erich Von Stahlein and love interest Marie are faithful to the earlier books in the series.

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Bill & Ted’s Bogus Journey is a 1991 American comedy science fiction film, the sequel to Bill & Ted’s Excellent Adventure. Like the first film, it stars Keanu Reeves as “Ted” Theodore Logan and Alex Winter as Bill S. Preston Esq. The film’s original working title was Bill & Ted Go To Hell.

Plot
The movie opens in the future, where Chuck De Nomolos (Joss Ackland) steals a time traveling phone booth, and then sends robotic duplicates of Bill (Alex Winter) and Ted (Keanu Reeves) back to the past to prevent their band Wyld Stallyns from winning the Fourth Annual San Dimas Battle of the Bands, and thus removing their influence on history. Rufus (George Carlin) attempts to stop De Nomolos’ plan but ends up lost in time. In the present, Bill and Ted struggle with their band Wyld Stallyns; while former 15th-century princesses and current fiancées Elizabeth (Annette Azcuy) and Joanna (Sarah Trigger) have become skilled on their instruments, Bill and Ted are still inept. De Nomolos’ clones capture Bill and Ted, and kill the pair by throwing them over a cliff (the same cliff shown in Star Trek earlier in the film), then take over their lives, including ruining their relationships with the princesses.

The real Bill and Ted find themselves facing Death (William Sadler), the Grim Reaper, who challenges them to a game for their souls. They realize they have no chance of defeating him, and instead give Death a “melvin” and flee. Bill and Ted try to find someone that can help them in their ethereal state, first by possessing Ted’s father, Captain Logan (Hal Landon Jr.) — “I totally possessed my Dad!” — and another police officer (Roy Brocksmith), and then by trying to call out at a séance held by Ted’s stepmother Missy (Amy Stock-Poynton). However, at the séance, they are mistaken for evil spirits and cast down into Hell. The two are sentenced by Satan (voiced by Frank Welker) and forced to live their own personal versions of Hell. The two realize their only means of escape is to play the Reaper in a game for their souls.

The Reaper brings them out of Hell, and lets them decide which game to play. The pair select several games, including Battleship, Clue, electric football, and Twister, each time winning and requiring the Reaper to insist on a rematch. Eventually the Reaper acquiesces and lets the pair command him. Bill and Ted realize that the only way to face their robotic counterparts and get to the Battle of the Bands is to find the smartest being alive to build them a more powerful set of robots. The Reaper takes them to Heaven and introduces him to Station (also voiced by Frank Welker), an alien that is able to split itself into two smaller versions of itself. The group returns to present-day Earth, and gather the necessary parts for Station at the local hardware store. As they race to the Battle of the Bands, Station completes powerful robotic versions of Bill and Ted. Station’s robots are able to defeat De Nomolos’ clones before Wyld Stallyns are due to take the stage. De Nomolos arrives from the future in the time machine, intent on defeating the band himself over a worldwide television broadcast, but Bill and Ted are able to get the upper hand with their friends’ help. Rufus, who was able to return to the future and then travel to the present, helps to secure De Nomolos while encouraging Bill and Ted to get on stage and play.

As Bill and Ted reunite with their fiancées and prepare to play, they realize that their musical skills still are lacking, and the four of them disappear briefly in the time machine, reappearing moments later but aged 16 months; during their time, they have not only learned how to skillfully play their instruments but both couples have married and born a child. Wyld Stallyns, joined by both the Reaper and Station, play their world-changing music to a global television audience thanks to De Nomolos’ interference. During the end credits, fictional newspaper and magazine articles describe the worldwide impact of the Stallyns’ music towards the Utopian future.

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Bill & Ted’s Excellent Adventure (1989) is an American buddy comedy/science fiction movie in which two slacking Metalheads travel through time in order to assemble a menagerie of historical figures for their high school history presentation.

The movie was written by Chris Matheson and Ed Solomon and directed by Stephen Herek. It stars Alex Winter as Bill S. Preston, Esquire, Keanu Reeves as “Ted” Theodore Logan, and George Carlin as Rufus.

Plot
The film opens in the future San Dimas, California, with Rufus (George Carlin) preparing to use a time-traveling phone booth to travel back to 1988 to make sure that Bill S. Preston, Esq. (Alex Winter) and Theodore “Ted” Logan (Keanu Reeves) remain together as the band “Wyld Stallyns”, as their music is the core of the future’s Utopian society. Rufus finds that Bill and Ted are on the verge of failing their high school history class, and should Ted fail, his father, police captain Logan (Hal Langdon) will ship him off to an Alaskan military academy, effectively ending the pair’s dreams of forming a band. As the two try to write a history report by asking customers questions at a local Circle K, Rufus introduces himself to them. Though Bill and Ted are skeptical of Rufus’ claims, they are convinced when future versions of themselves land nearby and explain the situation to them. Rufus shows Bill and Ted how the time machine works by taking them back to see Napoleon Bonaparte (Terry Camilleri) preparing for battle. Rufus returns to the present and leaves the two with the time machine; after Rufus leaves, they discover that Napoleon was dragged with them back to the present, and get an idea: to pass their history exam, they will go back in time and kidnap other historical figures and have them explain what they think of the San Dimas of the present. Bill and Ted leave Napoleon with Ted’s younger brother Deacon while they travel back to the past.

Bill and Ted first collect Billy the Kid (Dan Shor) and Socrates (Tony Steedman) (whom they refer to as “So-Crates” (/?so?kre?ts/ ), who are both confused but eager to help the pair. When they travel to 15th Century England, they become smitten with Princess Elizabeth (Kimberley Kates) and Princess Joanna (Diane Franklin), but fall into trouble with their father the King; they manage to escape with the help of Billy and Socrates and continue traveling through time. Soon, they have collected Sigmund Freud (Rod Loomis), Ludwig van Beethoven (Clifford David), Genghis Khan (Al Leong), Joan of Arc (Jane Wiedlin), and Abraham Lincoln (Robert V. Barron). The passengers encounter brief technical difficulties, and when attempting to return to the present, end up returning on the previous day outside the Circle K with Rufus introducing himself to their past selves. Bill and Ted recount their experience to their past selves, and learn how to properly return to the present from Rufus in order to give their history report on time.

While trying to get the other historical figures accustomed to life in San Dimas by dropping them off at the local shopping mall, Ted learns that Deacon abandoned Napoleon at a bowling alley the night before. Bill and Ted go off to search for him, finding him enjoying himself at a local water park, “Waterloo”. When they return to the mall, they find the other historical figures have been arrested by Ted’s father due to the chaos they caused. The two try to figure out how to rescue them when they realize they can use the time machine to go back in time and plant elements, such as the cell keys, at the police station for their escape plan. They successfully free the historical figures and make it to the school on time for their report. The report is an outstanding success, and the two pass their course.

The influential historical figures are all returned to their own time, seeding Bill and Ted’s philosophy througout time.

In the closure of the film, Rufus joins Bill and Ted as they practice and congratulates them on their report. Rufus brings in Princesses Elizabeth and Joanna, whom he rescued from their father (and from getting married to those royal ugly dudes), and explains that he’s introduced them to the modern century, and that they too are destined to be part of Wyld Stallyns. As the four begin to play an amateurish cacophony of music, Rufus breaks the fourth wall and assures us that “they do get better”.

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The Butterfly Effect is a 2004 American psychological thriller film directed and written by Eric Bress and J. Mackye Gruber. The film stars Ashton Kutcher, Amy Smart, Eric Stoltz and others, and was distributed by New Line Cinema. The title is a reference to the butterfly effect, which theorizes that a change in something seemingly innocuous, such as a flap of a butterfly’s wings, may have unexpected larger consequences in the future, such as the path a hurricane will travel.

The film was followed by two largely unrelated direct-to-DVD sequels, The Butterfly Effect 2 and The Butterfly Effect 3: Revelations.

Plot
Evan Treborn (Ashton Kutcher), who suffered severe traumas as a boy (Logan Lerman) and a teenager (John Patrick Amedori), blacks out frequently, often at moments of high stress. While in therapy, he finds that when he reads from his adolescent journals, he travels back in time, and is able to essentially “redo” parts of his past, thereby causing the blackouts he experienced as a child. There are consequences to his choices, however, that he then propagates back to the present: his alternate futures vary from frat boy to prisoner to amputee. His efforts are driven by the desire to undo the most traumatic events of his childhood which coincide with his blackouts, including saving his childhood sweetheart Kayleigh (Amy Smart), from being molested by her father (Eric Stoltz) and tormented by her sociopathic brother (William Lee Scott).

The actions he takes, and those he enables others to take during his blackouts, change the timeline in the new future wherein he awakes. As he continues to do this, he realizes that even though his intentions are good, the actions he takes have unintended consequences. Moreover, the assimilation of dozens of years’ worth of new memories from the various alternate timelines he has caused, are causing him brain damage. Ultimately he decides that his attempts to alter the past end up only harming those he cares about. He travels back in time once more to the first day he met Kayleigh and scares her away. He succeeds in undoing his childhood as he knew it, and then destroys all his journals so that he’s not tempted to bring any of it back.

The film ends eight years in the future with Evan leaving an office building and passing Kayleigh on the street. After a moment’s hesitation, he lets her pass by without noticing him.[1]

[edit] Alternative endings
The director’s cut of the film ends with Evan deciding that his ability to alter the past is causing tremendous harm. He travels back to the day of his birth, and as a fetus, strangles himself with his umbilical cord. His mother’s screams of “Not again!” suggest that the fetuses of the miscarriages before him had the same abilities and ultimately chose the same path he did. The resulting time-line shows his friends and family happier without him. A voice-over replays his mother’s confession (originally heard when visiting the fortune teller earlier, saying that he was the third of three brothers, the other two having died during birth), this time altered to her telling her fourth child, now a daughter, that she survived while her three children before her did not. This, along with the still-birth of the three boys, implies that this form of the time-traveling gene (TBE3: Revelations, uses a different form) is only active in the male side of the lineage, though it is unclear if a female can pass it on.[2] Beside that, the Director’s Cut includes numerous additional changes/extensions compared to the theatrical version[3].

Another alternative ending shows Evan and Kayleigh stopping on the street when they cross each other. They introduce themselves and Evan asks her out for coffee.[4]

Yet another ending is similar to the one shown in the film, except this time Evan, after hesitating, turns back and starts following Kayleigh.

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The Butterfly Effect 2 is a 2006 psychological thriller film directed by John R. Leonetti, starring Eric Lively, Erica Durance, Dustin Milligan and Gina Holden. The film is largely unrelated to the 2004 film The Butterfly Effect and was released direct-to-DVD October 10, 2006.

Plot
Julie (Erica Durance) and her boyfriend, Nick (Eric Lively), are celebrating Julie’s 24th birthday with another couple, Trevor (Dustin Milligan) and Amanda (Gina Holden). Julie begins to tell Nick something important, but he interrupts her. They begin discussing their future, with Nick telling her his job will make him successful enough for both of them, and asking her not to move to New York to pursue photography. Nick is called in to work before Julie can tell him her news. He has to go to the meeting because he is up against co-worker Dave (David Lewis) for a promotion. The four friends drive back to the city. When Julie unbuckles her seatbelt to take a picture of Trevor and Amanda, a tire blows out and their car stalls in the middle of the road where a semi-truck smashes into them.

Nick lies in a hospital bed unconscious, having flashbacks of the accident, when he starts seizing. His mother tells the nurse that he is having a nightmare, an occasional occurrence since childhood. He awakens to learn the others did not survive. Later, while looking at a photograph of himself and Julie, everything in the room begins to shudder and shake, while the people in the photograph begin moving.

One year later, Nick is at his job supervised by Dave. While presenting a sales pitch to investors for his company’s, “nextgen software for handhelds,” Nick experiences another episode of his environment becoming unstable after seeing a photograph which includes Trevor. This ruins his sales pitch and he is given a week’s suspension.

At home, Nick is looking at photographs from Julie’s birthday when he finds a picture of him driving everyone home. He transports back to the moment just before the tire blew. He yells at Julie to buckle-up, and the tire blows as before. This time they avoid the semi-truck, hitting a tree instead.

Nick awakens in a new timeline where Julie is living with him. It is her 25th birthday and they go to dinner where he tells her he remembers the past year differently. Trevor and Amanda arrive and Nick learns they are getting married and he is Trevor’s best man.

At a staff meeting, Nick learns that Trevor has been fired. Nick accuses his supervisor of using Trevor as a scapegoat for a sales deal that fell through, and is fired as well. Julie is angry with him, reminding him that she could have moved to New York instead of having a minimum wage job. Nick tells her he understands what is important in life: that they are together.

Later, Nick sees a Christmas photograph of him, his friends, and his supervisor, Dave, on the fridge. Nick experiences another episode; suddenly he is at the party. Nick sees Dave, fakes tripping so he is able to spill wine on him, and then steals Dave’s file of a specific investor (earlier Nick mentioned Dave got his promotion due to Nick’s work).

Nick finds himself in a timeline where he is the vice-president of the company. He phones Julie, getting her answering machine, with her message revealing she owns a local photography studio. Nick leaves her a message to meet him that night after he finishes a sale pitch meeting. Nick gives a successful pitch at the meeting, and learns he is having an affair with the boss’ daughter when she follows him into the restroom. She uses Nick’s handheld to photograph them kissing.

When Nick gets home Trevor tells him that a deal with a shady investor named Malcolm is in trouble. Nick tells Trevor he will fix things, then asks about Julie. Trevor has not kept in touch with her since Nick broke up with her a few months earlier.

Nick learns the next day that the sales pitch to the investor did not go through. He relays to his boss that Malcolm wants his investment money back. His boss informs him the company is broke, and it is Nick’s fault. Nick was unable to get a crucial investor several months ago, the one from the file he stole from Dave. Nick continues trying to contact Julie.

Nick and Trevor are at Malcolm’s nightclub when Nick spots Julie taking photographs. She wants nothing to do with him and has a new boyfriend. Nick tells Malcolm he is unable to return the money, and Malcolm has Trevor killed. Nick runs out of the room being shot at, when a stray bullet hits Julie, killing her. Nick attempts to escape using the photo taken earlier by the boss’ daughter, but fails and is knocked out and captured.

Nick goes back in time and confesses everything to his mother. She tells him his father also tried to control things and ultimately committed suicide. Nick meets with Amanda who brings a photograph from Julie’s 24th birthday.

Nick transports to the scene from the start of the movie. He tells Julie she should move to New York and breaks up with her. Julie tells him she is having his baby, but he ignores her. Upset, Julie takes his SUV and speeds down the road. Nick chases after her in a stolen jeep and pulls alongside her (in the wrong lane) to urge her to stop. With an oncoming vehicle approaching, Nick drives off the road and over the edge of a cliff, presumably dying.

One year later. Julie lives in New York with her son, Nick Jr., who has an episode of his environment becoming unstable while looking at the 24th birthday photograph of his parents and their friends, which is left in a changed state.

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The Butterfly Effect 3: Revelations is a 2009 science fiction/horror film directed by Seth Grossman that is the third film in the Butterfly Effect franchise.

Plot
Sam Reide (Chris Carmack) witnesses a woman killed, then wakes up in an ice-filled bathtub, his vitals being monitored by his sister Jenna (Rachel Miner). Sam can travel back to any time and location during his lifetime, needing only to concentrate on where and when he wishes to arrive. He has helped the local police capture criminals under the guise of being a psychic. We learn that Sam pays his sister’s rent and buys her groceries, and that she rarely leaves the apartment and lives in squalor.

That night, Elizabeth (Sarah Habel), the sister of Sam’s murdered girlfriend Rebecca (Mia Serafino), arrives at Sam’s apartment. She believes that the man about to be executed for her sister’s murder, Lonnie Flennonds (Richard Wilkinson), is innocent, and she offers to pay Sam to find the real murderer. Sam turns her down, but goes to speak with the man who tutored him on time travel, Goldburg (Kevin Yon), who reminds him of the cardinal rules: he’s not to alter his own personal past, nor travel in time with his body left unsupervised. We learn that a fire that claimed the lives of Sam and Jenna’s parents had claimed Jenna’s life, but Sam altered time so that their parents died instead. After Goldburg’s departure, their buxom bartender Vicki (Melissa Jones) seductively offers Sam a buttery nipple; he and Vicki have sex, but upon seeing Rebecca’s photo, he cannot continue.

Sam changes his mind and agrees to help Elizabeth out. He tries to help Lonnie without time-traveling, but Lonnie refuses the help, believing Sam to be the culprit. Frustrated, Sam travels back to June 1998. He first runs into a drunk Elizabeth, telling her to stay in her locked car. He goes into Rebecca’s bedroom to find her already dead; while there, Elizabeth is attacked from her backseat. Sam returns to the present, to learn he no longer owns a car, is renting his couch to a roommate named Paco (Ulysses Hernandez), and no longer works for the police, instead being a discarded suspect for Rebecca’s murder who has repeatedly asked for the case file. In 1998 Lonnie had seen Rebecca and Sam talking, and didn’t stop this time: as he was not at the murder scene, in this new present he is a wheelchair-bound lawyer. Sam visits Goldburg, who suggests he go back to the scene of the third murder and this time only observe. Sam also visits Jenna, who is significantly better off and living more cleanly; she refuses to help him.

Sam travels back to September 2000 and witnesses the third victim, Anita Barnes (Chantel Giacalone), being attacked, only to learn it is her boyfriend attempting to cater to her rape fetish. He is discovered and her boyfriend’s punch sends him back to the present, where now Sam is renting a couch from Paco, who is about to evict him for non-payment. Goldburg is missing, and Lonnie is now the third victim while Anita remains alive, pepper-spraying him. At her apartment, Jenna tells him that Goldburg was about to implicate him in the murders, and furthermore tells him she fears a future Sam is the murderer. Sam complains he is now “too stupid” to fix things; Jenna pinky-swears him to not time-travel anymore. Drunk at the bar, he propositions Vicki, who is engaged in this timeline. After Sam leaves, the killer shows up and murders Vicki near an auto plant; her body is found by the police. As Sam left his receipt behind at the bar, he is hauled in by the police. Jenna extricates him; the police put a tail on him as he leaves. As he leaves, he takes Det. Glenn’s (Lynch Travis) evidence notebook, which he uses to look at the scene of the crime and travel back to September 2004, before the bodies were found by the police.

He returns to the present to find himself on Jenna’s couch as she leaves for work, reminding him to clean up after himself and have dinner ready for her — their positions now effectively reversed from the beginning of the film. Sam returns to the auto plant, where the police lie in wait to arrest him. Sam convinces Det. Glenn to release him by telling him how his wife (Andrea Foster) mistook him for M.C. Hammer on their first meeting. Visiting home, Sam accidentally inhales some burundanga flowers from Goldburg’s greenhouse, and barely can haul himself into the bathtub before time-traveling back to the abandoned auto plant, where he finds a severely injured Goldburg, and, running for help, is felled by a foothold trap.

The killer approaches the trapped Sam, removing the mask as they approach to reveal … Jenna, who can also time travel. She has an incestuous love for her brother, having killed the women either because she perceived them as rivals for Sam’s affections or because they were new witnesses introduced by Sam’s rescue attempts. Sam travels back in time to the day of the fire that killed his parents; instead of saving Jenna, he traps her in her room. He awakes in a new timeline where he had fallen in love with Elizabeth (not Rebecca), and he, Elizabeth, and their daughter Jenna (named after his now-dead sister) (Alexis Sturr) are pulling up to a family barbecue, where he is greeted by his now-living parents and a perfectly healthy Goldburg.

The film closes as Sam’s daughter puts her Barbie doll on the grill and smiles as it begins to melt.

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Click is a 2006 American fantasy-comedy film directed by Frank Coraci and written by Steve Koren and Mark O’Keefe. Click tells the story of Michael Newman, an overworked architect so wrapped up in his job because of his boss John Ammer that his family is forced to take the backseat. He gets a “universal remote” from an eccentric store clerk named Morty, and finds he can literally control the universe around him. It began filming in late-2005 and was finished by early-2006. The film was nominated for an Academy Award for Best Makeup. Click was released in North America on June 23, 2006 by Columbia Pictures and Revolution Studios.

Plot
Sandler plays Michael Newman, an architect married to wife Donna, with two children, Ben and Samantha. One night, after Michael loses his temper at the amount of remote controls in the house, he goes in search of a universal remote control for his appliances. At a store named Bed Bath & Beyond he meets Morty, a “back room” clerk who happens to be an eccentric inventor who gives him a “universal” remote control and warns that it can never be returned.

The Click remoteTo Michael’s amazement, he finds out that the remote controls the universe, anticipating and interpreting his wishes. After some initial fun with it, Michael decides to skip to a promotion, but soon finds out he skipped a year of his life. Michael subsequently tries to destroy the remote, but it keeps regenerating.

Michael is fast-forwarded ten years into a nightmarish future where, although successful in his career, he is grossly overweight and lives alone. After an argument with Donna, Michael is then skipped a further six years, during which time his father Ted has died. Although he is a highly successful architect, Michael uses the remote to visit the last time he saw Ted, and discovers his insensitivity towards his father. During Michael’s grief, Morty appears and reveals that he is the Angel of Death.

Fearing that Morty is about to attack him, Michael fast forwards seven years into the future. He arrives at Ben’s wedding in 2030, and overcome with emotion, bursts an artery. Morty tries to persuade Michael that his life doesn’t have to end yet. Michael dies in his son’s arms, but not before telling his family of his love for them.

There is a white flash, and Michael wakes up in the present day believing his misadventure to have been a dream. He makes amends with his parents and reassures Donna, Ben, and Samantha of his affection for them. After reading a note from Morty explaining his “second chance”, Michael throws the remote in the trash.

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