--- title: 'Butterfly on a Wheel (2007)' type: 'film' director: 'Mike Barker' released: '2007-01-01' runtime_minutes: 95 genres: - 'Drama' - 'Crime' - 'Thriller' countries: - 'United Kingdom' - 'United States' - 'Canada' canonical: 'https://cinepixo.com/movies/butterfly-on-a-wheel-2007' review_count: 0 imdb: 'https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0489664/' publisher: 'CinePixo' --- # Butterfly on a Wheel (2007) 2007 · 95 min · Drama, Crime, Thriller · United Kingdom, United States, Canada ## Synopsis Butterfly on a Wheel is a 2007 thriller film directed by Mike Barker, co-produced and written by William Morrissey. A British-Canadian joint production, it stars Pierce Brosnan, Gerard Butler, and Maria Bello. The film's title is an allusion to a line of Alexander Pope's poem "Epistle to Dr Arbuthnot": "Who breaks a butterfly upon a wheel?" The line is usually interpreted as questioning why someone would put great effort into achieving something minor or unimportant, or who would punish a minor offender with a disproportional punishment. ## Credits - **Producer:** [Pierce Brosnan](https://cinepixo.com/people/pierce-brosnan) - **Director:** [Mike Barker](https://cinepixo.com/people/mike-barker) - **Screenplay:** [William Morrissey](https://cinepixo.com/people/william-morrissey) - **Original Music Composer:** [Robert Duncan](https://cinepixo.com/people/robert-duncan) - **Director of Photography:** [Ashley Rowe](https://cinepixo.com/people/ashley-rowe) ## Cast - [Peter Keleghan](https://cinepixo.com/people/peter-keleghan) - [Maria Bello](https://cinepixo.com/people/maria-bello) - [Nicholas Lea](https://cinepixo.com/people/nicholas-lea) - [Gerard Butler](https://cinepixo.com/people/gerard-butler) - [Pierce Brosnan](https://cinepixo.com/people/pierce-brosnan) - [Samantha Ferris](https://cinepixo.com/people/samantha-ferris) - [Callum Keith Rennie](https://cinepixo.com/people/callum-keith-rennie) - [Dustin Milligan](https://cinepixo.com/people/dustin-milligan) - [Claudette Mink](https://cinepixo.com/people/claudette-mink) ## Criticism on CinePixo No reviews published yet. Source: https://cinepixo.com/movies/butterfly-on-a-wheel-2007 Film facts: Wikidata (Q967489); synopsis from Wikipedia, CC BY-SA 4.0. Reviews, themes and notes are the work of this site's members.