The Blue Butterfly (film)

The Blue Butterfly
Directed by Léa Pool
Written by Pete McCormack
Starring William Hurt
Pascale Bussières
Marc Donato
Music by Stephen Endelman
Distributed by Monterey Media
Running time 97 mins.
Language English

The Blue Butterfly is a 2004 Canadian drama/adventure film, directed by Léa Pool, produced by Porchlight Entertainment and Alliance Atlantis, distributed by Monterey Media and starring Marc Donato as Pete Carlton, a boy terminally ill with cancer, whose final wish is to find the elusive Blue Morpho butterfly. William Hurt plays entomologist Alan Osborne, who takes him to the jungles of Costa Rica to find the insect.

The story is based on the life of David Marenger.[1] It was filmed on location in Canada's Montreal, Quebec and Central America's Costa Rica.

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Plot

Pete Carlton is a young Montreal boy with terminal cancer. He has a love for butterflies, and often watches entomologist Alan Osborne's television show. His mother, Teresa, meets with Osborne, to try to get him to take her son to Costa Rica to find the rare Blue Morpho butterfly. However, he dismisses her, but later comes to their home upon receiving a phone call from Pete saying he would go to Central America himself. The two arrive at a small village when they learn the blue morphos have already migrated. Heartbroken, they prepare to leave, until they find one is still in the jungle. They chase after it several times, but are unable to catch it. Pete is determined to find the "magical" butterfly so his cancer can be cured, which leads to them falling into an underground cavern, injuring Osborne badly. Pete escapes to get help, but it only leads to him being lost, suffering from hallucinations. Osborne is rescued, and as they are leaving to a hospital for Osborne, a friendly villager reveals she has caught the butterfly, giving it to Pete. As he is about to kill it for his collection, he lets it go so it can make more of the magical butterflies. An epilogue shows that at the next visit to the doctor, that Pete's cancer had miraculously disappeared.

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Notes

  1. ^ "David Marenger Biography". www.bluebutterflythemovie.com/david_bio.html. Archived from the original on 11 May 2009. http://web.archive.org/web/20090511154729/http://www.bluebutterflythemovie.com/david_bio.html. Retrieved 11 May 2009. 

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