Donnie Darko
- Release Date
- October 26, 2001
- Director
- Richard Kelly
- Cast
- Jake Gyllenhaal , Holmes Osborne , Maggie Gyllenhaal , Daveigh Chase , Mary McDonnell , James Duval
- Runtime
- 113
- Main Genre
- Drama
- Studio
- Newmarket Films
- Writers
- Richard Kelly
- Tagline
- Dark, Darker, Darko
- Website
- http://www.donniedarko.com/
Summary
Some may think that Donnie Darko is a typical maladjusted teenager. Actually, Donnie is borderline delusional, beset by visions of a monstrous rabbit, which is trying to keep him under its sinister influence. Prompted by this apparition, Donnie commits antisocial acts while he is undergoing psychotherapy, surviving the vagaries of high-school life and romance, and fortuitously escaping a bizarre death from a falling jet engine. Donnie battles his demons, literally and figuratively, in a series of intertwining story lines that play with time travel, fundamentalist gurus, fate, predestination and the machinations of the universe.
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