from IFC Films
Directed by
Richard Kelly
Starring
Jake Gyllenhaal (Donnie Darko)
Jena Malone
Drew Barrymore
Noah Wylie
Mary McDonnell
Holmes Osborne
Written by
Richard Kelly
Rated: 
(for language, some drug use and violence) |
 Some may think
that Donnie Darko (Jake Gyllenhaal) is a typical maladjusted
teenager. Actually, Donnie is a borderline schizophrenic, who
is visited by visions of a creepy giant rabbit who is trying
to keep him under its sinister influence. Prompted by this apparition,
Donnie commits antisocial acts while he is undergoing psychotherapy,
and experiencing the "joys" of high-school life and
romance, and miraculously 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.
A thoroughly original, downright weird tour through the mind
of an atypical teenager. Or is he more typical than we'd like
to think? This movie gets our highest rating. -- RaveCentral.com
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