Donnie Darko
In a funny, moving and distinctly mind-bending journey through suburban America, one extraordinary but disenchanted teenager is about to take Time's Arrow for a ride. After surviving a freak accident, he is plagued by visions of a large bunny rabbit that manipulates him to commit a series of crimes, after narrowly escaping a bizarre accident.
4 September 1947, Honolulu, Hawaii, USA
8 September 1961
2 July 1985, West Deal, New Jersey, USA
18 September 1949, Gadsden, Alabama, USA
22 January 1990, Burbank, California, USA
9 February 1988, Burbank, California, USA
21 May 1990, Riverside, California, USA
3 November 1933, Boston, Massachusetts, USA
18 August 1952, Houston, Texas, USA
23 May 1931, New York City, New York, USA
4 June 1971, Hollywood, Los Angeles, California, USA
10 April 1930, Ft. Lauderdale, Florida, USA
15 April 1982, Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada
1971, Costa Mesa, California, USA
24 July 1990, Las Vegas, Nevada, USA
20 August 1960, New Brunswick, New Jersey, USA
19 January 1951, Denniston, Glasgow, Scotland, UK
28 April 1952, Wilkes-Barre, Pennsylvania, USA
21 November 1984, Sparks, Nevada, USA
7 November 1947, Kansas City, Missouri, USA
12 June 1924, Milton, Massachusetts, USA
29 January 1940, Hollywood, Los Angeles, California, USA
21 June 1952, Houston, Texas, USA
December 19, 2016
Gyllenhaal's breakthrough performance is simultaneously heartfelt, melancholy and mischievous.December 19, 2016
As pop as it is arthouse, as funny as it is tragic, Donnie Darko remains a remarkable one-off that's easy to adore.October 31, 2016
Complex, inventive, gripping, strange, and in the end deeply moving, with more ideas in it than Hollywood has produced in the entire last decade.April 06, 2017
It remains an aesthetically filmed blend of off-beat comedy, mind-boggling sci-fi, and subjective storytelling that serves as a singular and timeless piece of cinema.November 06, 2001
Excitingly original indie vision.April 29, 2017
The theatrical version is some kind of compacted masterpiece, hormonal, vital, dazed, blissfully unhinged... I'm too attached to Donnie Darko to worry over its wanton weirdness, its mix of concreteness and intangibility.October 31, 2001
A stunning technical accomplishment that virtually bursts with noise, ideas and references.June 08, 2007
Donnie Darko has plenty of problems. But most stem from a young filmmaker overswinging on his first time up to the plate and hitting a deep fly out rather than a home run.January 10, 2017
Donnie Darko rightly made a star of Gyllenhaal.January 25, 2002
Shows plenty of promise, but it's somewhat self-involved and won't appeal to audiences who like a straightforward -- even if fantastical -- narrative.October 26, 2001
First-time director-writer Richard Kelly draws on a number of intriguing elements ... without including a single, crucial gem that pulls everything together.June 08, 2007
Kelly is a supple and courageous storyteller, boldly free-associating as he mixes parody and satire with earnest psychodrama and coming up with plot points no one could anticipate.