Movie
Butterfly Dreaming
2008 · 85 min
It is a suffocating descent into fractured reality, where grief warps perception until nothing feels solid.
- Directed by
- Rufus Williams
- Genres
- Drama, Thriller
- Starring
- Andrew Bowen, Missy Crider, James McDaniel
- Tagline
- How do you know you're you?
- Overview
- Anxious dreams, hallucinations, and paranoid reality torment a young math professor in the aftermath of his wife's death in a car accident. As madness, addiction and affairs send the story spiraling towards its conclusion, the truth about what really happened to the professor's wife comes into focus.
- How it feels
- Tense, dark and melancholic. Measured and needs your attention.
- About
- Grief, madness, addiction, identity
- Content
- No violence, gore, sexual content or swearing.
- Note
- Written by AI, so it can be wrong. Full breakdown
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- Directed by
- Rufus Williams
- Genres
- Drama, Thriller
- Starring
- Andrew Bowen, Missy Crider, James McDaniel


