The Trigger Effect

When nothing works, anything goes.

A blackout leaves those affected to consider what is necessary, what is legal, and what is questionable, in order to survive in a predatory environment.

1h 34m1996RTMDb 5.8

English

Crew and Cast

Storyline

A blackout leaves those affected to consider what is necessary, what is legal, and what is questionable, in order to survive in a predatory environment.

The Trigger Effect poster

You Might Also Like

Light It Up

6.61999

Leave the World Behind

6.42023

Rogue Agent

6.32022

The Killing of Two Lovers

6.42021

The Good Neighbor

6.62022

A Dry White Season

6.71989

Lila & Eve

6.22015

The Lords of Discipline

6.61983

Magpie

6.62024

Off the Grid

6.42025

Franklyn

6.02008

Amber Alert

7.12024

Chatroom

5.82010

Tyler Perry's Duplicity

6.62025

The Road Dance

6.72022

First Snow

6.12006

Topside

6.62022

Lockdown

6.12000

The Operative

5.82019

Lou

6.52022

More Like This

The Butterfly Effect

7.62004

Star-Crossed Lovers

8.81962

How It Ends

5.32018

Blade Runner: Black Out 2022

7.12017

Philtre Spectral

2025

Beneath

5.42007

The Third Wave

6.12003

My Brilliant Life

7.32014

In the Heights

7.12021

The Hate U Give

8.12018

Birth of a Nation

7.81983

One Battle After Another

7.32025

Shankhabela

9.01966

Absences

2025

Indigo Blue

2025

A Christmas Carol

6.42004

Jack

4.02023

Moontide

6.41942

Kangaroo

7.31986

Alone in the Dark

5.81982

Info

Status: Released
Released: 30 August 1996
Runtime: 1h 34m
Rating: R
TMDB score: 5.8 / 10 (127 votes)

Production

Director: David Koepp
Writers: David Koepp
Studios: Gramercy Pictures, Universal Pictures, Amblin Entertainment
Countries: United States of America

Box Office

Budget: $8.0M
Revenue: $3.6M
Profit: $4.4M loss
Return: 0.5×

Languages

Original: English
Spoken: English, Italian