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Genres:
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Drama /
Mystery /
Sci-Fi /
Thriller /
Music
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Release:
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Director:
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Richard Kelly
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Actors:
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Maggie Gyllenhaal,
Gary Lundy,
Mark Hoffman,
Tom Tangen,
Jazzie Mahannah,
Jolene Purdy,
Jake Gyllenhaal,
Holmes Osborne,
Daveigh Chase,
Mary McDonnell,
James Duval,
Arthur Taxier,
Patrick Swayze,
David St. James,
Stuart Stone
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Duration:
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113 min.
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Rating:
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(8.3/10)132.5
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Plot Summary:
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A troubled teenager, Donnie Darko, escapes death when a jet-engine crashes in his bedroom, because he follows a monster bunny leading him outside. The bunny, called Frank, tells him that the far-out will annihilation in 28 days. As the final girl comes closer and closer Donnie is drawn into an alarming series of events that may or may not be a product of growing senselessness.
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Tags:
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Suprising!
I wasn't expecting much really - it was a 'hollywood blockbuster' and there's not many that really enthral.. but what a shock!
I was most impressed with the cleverness of the plot, which kept you guessing and even made you think when it finished, but everything else, from the style to the acting, was great too.
A good film for everyone into good films.
Donnie Darko
I'm obviously the only person in the world that thought this was a hyped up pile of ****! ( given a choice i'd describe this film using a lot of derogatory expletives, but then it would be censored wouldn't it?)
Donnie Darko
Who is Donnie Darko? Well, he's the troubled hero of Richard Kelly's out of the ordinary initiation part, played by Jake Gyllenhaal. Not contrariwise is Donnie ("Donnie Darko? What the hell kinda name is that?") a complex nut - he's a IQ costly-school student, troubled nearby nutty instability, who is both unrestrained and perspicacious - but the movie itself defies sort definition. It's a dramatic art about teen love. It's philosophical sci-fi. It's a irony of 80s America. And more. It's 1988. Donnie wakes up on a mountain road. It looks like Provence, but Donnie anon descends into manicured all-American suburbia. The film was ball in LA but the fanciful setting of Middlesex, Virginia, is reminiscent of Despondent Velvet or calm E.T. (beyond evoked near the ...
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