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- 20th Century80s
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- Teens
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Donnie Darko, 2001
English
USA
Profile of Donnie Darko
The mood of Donnie Darko is atmospheric, offbeat, and captivating. The plot centers around suburban life, doctors and patients, and teenage love. It features satire. Donnie Darko is a drama, independent, and period movie. Stylistically, it is postmodernist and is surreal. In approach, it is serious. Donnie Darko takes place, at least partly, in the suburbs. It happens in the 1980s. The movie is known for being a cult favorite, essential viewing, and an award winner. Donnie Darko is especially suggested for teens. Note that it includes violent content.
Summary of Donnie Darko
Writer-director Richard Kelly's bold debut film is a social satire, a dark comedy, a science fiction time-traveling fantasy, and a suburban nightmare about an extremely intelligent, depressive, self-destructive, narcoleptic, gun-toting, sex-crazed, teenaged arsonist: Donnie Darko (Jake Gyllenhaal). DONNIE DARKO is not your typical teen comedy. But, like GHOST WORLD and RUSHMORE, it uses the trappings of the teen comedy as the entry point for a subversive and trenchant (and also wonderfully entertaining) look at American life. The difference between those films and DONNIE DARKO is that Donnie is an unlikely hero who just might save the world.
It's October 1988, in the Virginia suburb of Middlesex. When Frank, a grotesque giant bunny (possibly imaginary), leads Donnie out of his house minutes before a plane smashes through his roof, he not only saves Donnie's life but also warns Donnie that the world is about to end. Over the next few weeks, Donnie falls in love with Gretchen (Jena Malone) and tries to figure out what his life means. Kelly's film perfectly captures the unease that is quietly scratching under the surface of suburban late 1980s life. Gyllenhaal leads an exceptional cast, bringing Kelly's twisted but humane vision to life. An exceptional performance is given by Mary McDonnell (PASSION FISH) as Donnie's mother.
Details
| Language: | English |
| Country: | USA |
| Release date: | 19 January 2001 |
| Runtime: | 113 min |
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as Donnie Darko
as Gretchen Ross
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Salon.com
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- by: Andrew O'Hehir
Entertainment Weekly
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- by: Lisa Schwarzbaum
Users Reviews
- 18.April.2012
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- by: ff7_squirrelman
- ff7_squirrelman rated this movie7/10Good
- 17.January.2012
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- by: Nikan
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10/10Must See
