Identify movie where woman and baby are killed by exploding mailbox prank

July 16, 2011 4:29 PM

Movie identification request: There's a movie that features a group of friends who grew up together and are now back together as adults. When they were kids, some of them put a cherry bomb or some other big explosive in a woman's mailbox as a prank, and while they were watching for it to go off, she came out to get the mail carrying a baby. They tried to stop her (I think) but the explosive went off, and presumably she and the baby were killed, traumatizing the boy who did it (?) for life. For years, I've thought that was "12 and Holding" but I just watched that today, and while there are some similarities, that's not what I thought it was. Can anyone identify the movie with the exploding mailbox for me? IMDB didn't seem to find anything using obvious keywords.
posted by Death by Ugabooga to Media & Arts (5 answers total)

It's The Butterfly Effect.
posted by trialex at 4:31 PM on July 16, 2011 [6 favorites]

Yup, I came in here to say The Butterfly Effect. Definitely.
posted by Lokheed at 4:58 PM on July 16, 2011

Yup, The Butterfly Effect.
posted by TooFewShoes at 5:04 PM on July 16, 2011

Butterfly effect. If you watch it on dvd look at both the theatrical release ending and the director's cut ending. They are TOTALLY different.
posted by jasper411 at 5:42 PM on July 16, 2011 [1 favorite]

I suspect it is the Butterfly Effect.
posted by bluedaisy at 8:30 PM on July 16, 2011