Donnie Darko
The science fiction follows a teenager who survives a freak accident and got plagued by visions of a large bunny rabbit that manipulates him to commit a series of crimes, after narrowly escaping a bizarre accident.
19 January 1951, Denniston, Glasgow, Scotland, UK
9 October 1979, Los Angeles, California, USA
20 August 1960, New Brunswick, New Jersey, USA
16 November 1977, Lower East Side, Manhattan, New York City, New York, USA
13 July 1981, Los Angeles, California, USA
2 July 1985, West Deal, New Jersey, USA
8 September 1961
28 April 1952, Wilkes-Barre, Pennsylvania, USA
21 January 1977, San Diego, California, USA
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.
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.
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, 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.
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.
November 06, 2001
Excitingly original indie vision.
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.
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.
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.
December 19, 2016
Gyllenhaal's breakthrough performance is simultaneously heartfelt, melancholy and mischievous.
