Donnie Darko (2001)

Recommended

USA

Feature Film

Writer/Director: Richard Kelly

Cinematographer: Steven Poster

Composer: Michael Andrews

Cast: Jake Gyllenhaal, Jena Malone, Holmes Osborne, Mary McDonnell, Maggie Gyllenhaal, Daveigh Chase, Noah Wyle, Drew Barrymore, Patrick Swayze, Beth Grant

An emotionally troubled teenager with a tendency to sleepwalk and talk to six-foot tall rabbits, after fortuitously avoiding being crushed by a mysterious falling jet engine, finds a new girlfriend, becomes convinced that the world will end in little under a month, develops a taste for vandalism, and acquires an interest in time travel, in Richard Kelly’s gently satirical and thoroughly original sci-fi superhero movie-cum-teen melodrama. Iain.Stott