(CNN) A University of Hartford student has been charged with attempted murder after he stabbed two of his classmates while re-enacting a movie scene for a drama class, officials say.

The three Connecticut college students were working on a group project Sunday afternoon in a dorm room when one of them took the class assignment too far.

The student, Jake Wascher, now faces two counts of attempted murder and is being held on $1 million bail.

They were acting out "a movie scene in which a person(s) gets stabbed, at which point (Wascher) began to stab both victims before fleeing on foot," Hartford Police said.

Police did not specify which movie the students were re-enacting, but The Hartford Courant reported it was "The Butterfly Effect," a 2004 sci-fi thriller starring Ashton Kutcher.

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