Donnie darko

Cult movie Donnie Darko was released 22 years ago – and fans are still debating what the enjoyably head-scratching, Jake Gyllenhaal-starring drama is all about. Is it a teen movie, a 1980s period piece, a musing on life and death – or a sci-fi film about time-travel? Writer/director Richard Kelly, who was just 25 years old when he made the movie, prefers audiences to decide, but he did tell the In the last two decades, it has become much more than that. While Donnie Darko started life as a box-office flop (partly because it was released just after 9/11 in the US, when no-one was going to cinemas), it later became a word-of-mouth hit on DVD and at midnight screenings. It is now regarded as a cult classic – and one that still has viewers debating the ending – and discussing it at length online. Lady Gaga revealed she was a big fan of the movie when she sat down with Jake Gyllenhaal as part of Actors On Actors series in 2022. "I don't want to lie and tell you I haven't seen it so many times," she told Gyllenhaal. "In the world of music, but in fashion as well, Donnie Darko, it's religion. It really is. And if you know your shit, you know Donnie Darko." Unfortunately the singer didn't ask Gyllenhaal to explain what the movie is all about during their chat, and director Kelly himself admits it can be a puzzle, saying in the DVD commentary that "this film kinda does need Cliffs Notes," while star Gyllenhaal wrote in the introduction to The Donnie Darko Book: "What is Donnie Dark...

Donnie Darko doesn't get along too well with his family, his teachers, and his classmates; but he does manage to find a sympathetic friend in Gretchen, who agrees to date him. He has a compassionate psychiatrist, who discovers hypnosis is the means to unlock hidden secrets. His other companion may not be a true ally. Donnie has a friend named Frank, a large bunny which only Donnie can see. When an engine falls off a plane and destroys his bedroom, Donnie is not there. Both the event, and Donnie's escape, seem to have been caused by supernatural events. — • Taking place during an election year in the late 1980s, this movie tells the story of a troubled teenager who receives disturbing visions from a tall bunny rabbit telling him the world will soon come to an end. Seeking answers, Donnie investigates time travel in an attempt to turn back the clock and prevent the world's seemingly impending doom, actions which pose bizarre and life-changing results. — • Troubled adolescent Donnie Darko receives a disturbing vision that the world will end in twenty-eight days. With the help of various characters, including a six-foot rabbit called Frank, he slowly discovers the mysterious physical and metaphysical laws that govern his life and that will lead up to the destruction of the universe. — • A troubled teenager, Donnie Darko, escapes death when a jet engine crashes in his bedroom, because he follows a giant bunny leading him outside. The bunny, called Frank, tells him that th...

Running time 134 minutes Country United States Language English Budget $290,000 Box office $3.7million Donnie Darko: The Director's Cut is a 2004 re-cut version of Donnie Darko grew in popularity through word-of-mouth due to strong Donnie Darko was subsequently described as being the first "flop" to be given a director's cut. Kelly made various alterations to create the director's cut. Many of the deleted scenes that had previously been included as bonus features on the film's DVD were added, which increased the runtime by twenty minutes. Kelly also superimposed text from the in-universe book The Philosophy of Time Travel, providing an explanation for some of the more ambiguous elements of the film's plot. Additionally, the sound quality was improved, digital effects were added and musical cues were changed or removed. For the opening scene, " Critical reception to Donnie Darko: The Director's Cut was initially positive: review aggregator Donnie Darko: The Director's Cut took a total of $753,147 at the box office and $3.7 million worldwide. Background [ ] Donnie Darko through her production company Initially struggling to find financial backing for Donnie Darko in Hollywood, director Richard Kelly spent a year and a half pitching the project to executives. Donnie Darko made its premiere at the Commercially, Donnie Darko performed poorly at first. Released only a month after the As a result, in part, of its success overseas, Donnie Darko gained a new life in the US and deve...

Donnie: Why are you wearing that stupid bunny suit? Frank: Why are you wearing that stupid man suit? Donnie Darko is a 2001 On October 2, 1988, troubled teenager Donnie Darko sees a figure in a demonic rabbit costume while sleepwalking. The figure introduces himself as "Frank" and tells Donnie that the world will end in 28 days, 6 hours, 42 minutes and 12 seconds, moments before a jet engine crashes into Donnie's bedroom. Donnie credits Frank with saving his life by causing him to sleepwalk out of the house, and begins to do his bidding while gradually trying to uncover the strange events around him, which The word-of-mouth cult following that the film grew led to Kelly being given the opportunity to create a Rumors of This film includes examples of: • • A minor aspect of establishing the film's setting and characterizing Donnie's family is the presidential election of that year, which came down to • raison d'etre, particularly in the first act. • • Donnie's father, Eddie Darko, chokes out a chuckle at the " • Earlier in the film, Donnie argues with his sister and she tells him to "Suck a fuck." He retorts by asking how that's even possible, before there's a pause, followed by both of them laughing. • Donnie's father, Eddie, tries (unsuccessfully) not to laugh when Samantha innocently asks "What's a 'fuck-ass'?" after she hears it during the vulgar exchange Donnie and Elizabeth have during dinner. • who turns out to be a pedophile hosts an event where local elementary scho...

Well, what indeed. Kelly’s sci-fi-tinted tale of adolescent isolation came out six months before Spider-Man, the film that kick-started the now all-consuming superhero movie revival, and the two have more in common than you might initially assume: both are stories of an awkward teenage boy coming to terms with what appear to be otherworldly abilities, and assuming responsibility for the world around them. For plucky Peter Parker, that means standard-issue feats of derring-do and defeating evil; for downcast Donnie Darko, it means ending and altering the very timeline in which he exists, ultimately dying so that others may live. As superhero origin stories go, it doesn’t have much franchise potential: Donnie’s legend begins and ends in one fell swoop. But it has an eerie, enduring power: would that many comic-book heroes’ stories were so noble and haunting and finite. A 20th anniversary is an odd one for Donnie Darko to celebrate: if any film should be granted eternal teenagedom, Kelly’s vastly ambitious debut feature is it. I first saw it when I was 19 or so, which was pretty much ideal. The film, with its blend of ordinary high-school angst and trippy, whoa-what-was-THAT philosophy was pretty much designed to be shared among teenagers like a secret – a work that both understands their view of the world and offers to expand it in cosmic, confusing ways. That quality was enhanced by the bitty slow burn of its release. Following mixed reviews from its Sundance premiere, the ...

When Richard Kelly graduated from USC in 1997, he was on a mission. Like so many wide-eyed film school grads, he had a passion project driving him. He’d made two short films, to some acclaim, while in college, but in that way that 20-somethings don’t know any better, he envisioned his next move to be a big budget, major motion picture. His idea was Donnie Darko. Donnie Darko, released in 2001 starring Jake and Maggie Gyllenhaal, Jenna Mallone, Drew Barrymore, Mary McDonnell and Patrick Swayze, was a smash, earning accolades from moviegoers and critics alike, and making a slew of “best” lists during the 2000s. Now, twenty years since the germ of the idea came to Kelly, he’s spent the better part of the past year revisiting the film, preparing it for Quartz caught up with Kelly to delve into why he believes Donnie Darko has such an enduring appeal, and why now was the right time to revisit the film, one that the 42 year old Kelly was just 26 when it was released. Probably the most amazing thing to me about Donnie Darko is how it continues to find new life with successive generations and how it continues to resonate with people. What do you think it is about it that is the basis for its cross generational appeal? Well, when we made the film in the year 2000 we were deliberately making a film set in 1988. I was very adamant that it was set in this very particular place and time. All the movies that I make will always be set in a very specific timeline, with a date stamp and a ...

Running time 103 minutes Country United States Language English Budget $4 million Box office $1,035,846 $44,103 (2011 re-release) S. Darko, also known as S. Darko: A Donnie Darko Tale, is a 2009 American In Donnie Darko, the main character of the same name is a young man troubled by hallucinations of doomsday who ends up being killed by a mysterious falling jet engine. S. Darko is set seven years after Donnie's death. His sister Samantha Darko is beset by sleepwalking, hallucinations and apparent Plot [ ] Seven years after the bizarre death of Donnie Darko, a young man who was crushed to death by a jet engine that fell from the sky, his now 18-year-old sister Samantha Darko runs away from her family in Middlesex, Virginia and joins her best female friend Corey on a road trip to Samantha is still struggling with her brother's death and is A geeky guy, Jeremy ( Samantha meets Jeremy, who is showing signs of radiation exposure from the meteorite. Justin is forging a bunny-skull mask out of scrap metal to help "his princess." Samantha wakes up next to a highway, where she encounters Randy and Corey. Samantha tells Corey she wants to get out of town but the two argue bitterly. Samantha walks away, moments before another car appears, forcing Randy to swerve his car, killing her in the crash. Anguished about her best friend's death, Corey goes through Samantha's effects, including a book about Everything moves backwards to when Samantha is walking down the road. Corey and Randy d...