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CHAOS THEORY

"Archetypal American Hilarity"

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CHAOS THEORY is an often hilarious movie about a family man who goes crazy after learning some disturbing news. Ryan Reynolds plays Frank Allen, an efficiency expert who keeps a tight schedule. When his daughter’s fiancé has cold feet, Frank forces the boy to hear the story of Frank’s relationship with his wife. Frank tells him about the time when Susan left Frank, taking their daughter with her, when she thought Frank had gotten another woman pregnant. To prove his faithfulness, Frank gets a DNA test, where he learns that he is unable to have children. Shocked to learn that he is not the biological father of their daughter throws Frank into a tizzy.

CHAOS THEORY is a delightful comedy of errors with some hilarious and very heartwarming moments. Best of all, the movie ultimately extols marriage, a more proper view of love, and family. The content requires caution, however, because of significant foul language and a seduction scene where a woman strips to her underwear to try to seduce the married protagonist. She fails because the protagonist loves his wife, but viewers won’t know that until the scene ends.

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(BB, Pa, LLL, V, S, N, AA, D, M) Strong moral worldview about a family man who goes crazy after learning some disturbing news but returns to his senses, with an excellent message at the end about love being a choice that we make, but with some immoral pagan content; 23 obscenities, three strong profanities and five light exclamatory profanities; light violence includes fighting, man threatens another man with shotgun and man accidentally shoots hole in boat and has to swim; sexual content includes woman takes off underwear to seduce man and jumps on top of him to kiss him but he escapes out from under her and implied premarital sex; brief upper male nudity in one scene; alcohol use and drunkenness; brief smoking; and, older man tricks younger man.

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CHAOS THEORY is an often hilarious small movie about a family man who goes crazy after learning some disturbing news.

Ryan Reynolds plays Frank Allen, an efficiency expert who keeps a tight schedule. The movie opens at the wedding of his daughter. When the groom has second thoughts, Frank stops him and makes him listen to his own life story.

Cut to a New Year’s Eve party, where Susan decides that she wants to marry Frank rather than Frank’s best friend Buddy. Seven years later, Frank and Susan have a beautiful 7-year-old daughter, Jesse.

One morning, Susan tries to loosen her husband’s strict schedule by adding 10 minutes to his day. This, however, makes him late for an important speech. Still feeling completely out of kilter after his speech, Frank goes to the bar. He strikes up a conversation with a beautiful woman who attended his speech, then starts drinking too much, which causes him to spill out his frustrations. She convinces him to let her use the bathroom in his hotel room, where she tries to seduce him. At just that minute, Susan calls Frank and suspects some hanky panky. Frank escapes the girl’s attentions and rushes out the door.

On the way home, however, another car runs Frank off the road. In the car is a panicked woman about to give birth. Her car has been disabled by the near tragedy, so Frank rushes the woman to the hospital, where she gives birth.

When the unmarried woman abandons her baby, the hospital contacts Frank because the people there think Frank is the father. Susan thinks the pregnant woman was the woman in Frank’s hotel room. Angrily, she leaves Frank, taking Jesse with her. She won’t even let Frank explain himself.

A despondent Frank takes a DNA test to show that he’s not the father of the baby. Frank learns, however, that he cannot have any children at all. Thus, Jesse isn’t actually his daughter. Shocked by Susan’s actual apparent betrayal, Frank decides to live only in the moment and do things he would never normally consider. In fact, he takes the index cards that provided the structure of his previous life and scribbles on them spontaneous ideas, leaving his choices to random shuffles of the cards. The chaos of the cards leads Frank to dangerous life choices, especially when he discovers who the real biological father of his daughter is.

CHAOS THEORY is a delightful comedy of errors with some hilarious and ultimately very heartwarming moments. Best of all, the movie ultimately extols marriage, family commitment, and a more proper view of love. As such, it nearly represents an archetypal version of what a good American comedy can and should do. The content requires caution, however, because of significant foul language and the seduction scene where a woman strips to her underwear to seduce the protagonist. She fails because the protagonist actually loves his wife, but viewers won’t know that until the scene ends.

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Now more than ever we’re bombarded by darkness in media, movies, and TV. Movieguide® has fought back for almost 40 years, working within Hollywood to propel uplifting and positive content. We’re proud to say we’ve collaborated with some of the top industry players to influence and redeem entertainment for Jesus. Still, the most influential person in Hollywood is you. The viewer.

What you listen to, watch, and read has power. Movieguide® wants to give you the resources to empower the good and the beautiful. But we can’t do it alone. We need your support.

You can make a difference with as little as $7. It takes only a moment. If you can, consider supporting our ministry with a monthly gift. Thank you.

Movieguide® is a 501c3 and all donations are tax deductible.