Desc: Strange Attractors: A Movie for Curious People: Directed by Julia Landau. With Robert Shaw. A young woman's pursuit of the real story behind some old letters entangles her in the life of their rightful owner, a MacArthur Genius winner who has since fallen into obscurity. He is provoked by this stranger's obsession with him, and a complicated romance develops as they discover the real life implication of chaos theory.