
Jake Gyllenhaal
Donnie Darko
Jena Malone
Gretchen Ross
James Duval
Frank
Drew Barrymore
Karen Pomeroy
Beth Grant
Kitty Farmer
Maggie Gyllenhaal
Elizabeth Darko
Mary McDonnell
Rose Darko
Holmes Osborne
Eddie Darko
Noah Wyle
Prof. Kenneth Monnitoff
Katharine Ross
Dr. Lilian Thurman
Patrick Swayze
Jim Cunningham
Daveigh Chase
Samantha Darko
Arthur Taxier
Dr. Fisher
David St. James
Bob Garland
Patience Cleveland
Roberta Sparrow / Grandma Death
Jazzie Mahannah
Joanie James
Jolene Purdy
Cherita Chen
David Moreland
Principal Cole
Kristina Malota
Susie Bates
Marina Malota
Emily Bates
Scotty Leavenworth
David
Phyllis Lyons
Anne Fisher
Gary Lundy
Sean Smith
Alex Greenwald
Seth Devlin
Stuart Stone
Ronald Fisher
Joan Blair
Mystery Woman
Seth Rogen
Ricky Danforth
Mark Hoffman
Police Officer
Jerry Trainor
Lanky Kid
Tom Tangen
Man in Red Jogging Suit
Carly Naples
Suzy Bailey
Lisa K. Wyatt
Linda Connie
Rachel Winfree
Shanda Riesman
Ashley French
Kim
Tiler Peck
Beth Farmer
Fran Kranz
Passenger
Sarah Hudson
Friend
Alison Jones
Dorky Half-Sister
Lee Weaver
Leroy
Jack Salvatore, Jr.
Larry Riesman










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$4,500,000.00
$7,500,000.00
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- #school performance
- #halloween
- #time travel
- #vandalism
- #surrealism
- #loss
- #imaginary friend
- #suburbia
- #arson
- #vision
- #school
- #mental illness
- #virginia
- #sleepwalking
- #paranoid
- #1980s
- #parallel universe
- #depressing
Reviews

Jake Gyllenhaal is the eponymous teenager who just doesn't really fit in. Ever since he was a young child, he has struggled and it's only "Gretchen" (Jena Malone) who has anything to do with him. It's maybe on the psychiatrists couch that he seems most able to relax - under hypnosis - and under that influence we embark on quite a curious learning curve that follows "Donnie" from childhood through

**A strange film, with a strong visual impact and a script with wild theories, but which fulfills its objective very well and is enjoyable to watch.** I saw this film very recently, and I have to agree with all those who label it “strange” or “bizarre”. Directed and written by Richard Kelly, it stars a young Jake Gyllenhaal and offers us a very complex plot where a young teenager commits severa

A complete mind-bender of a movie that put Jake Gyllenhall on the map, introduced the creepiest rabbit costume of all time, and may make you surprisingly tear up to a remake of Tears for Fears "Mad World."

***Cult flick with sophisticated themes, great cast, but meh story*** Released in 2001 and written/directed by Richard Kelly, "Donnie Darko" is a drama/fantasy starring Jake Gyllenhaal as a troubled California teen dogged by apparitions of a man in an evil rabbit suit who manipulates him to commit several crimes, after he narrowly escapes a peculiar accident concerning a jet engine falling from
Interesting movie with several readings. As with 2001: A Space Odissey, it is needed a reading of the actual explanation for the events to fully understand the original idea ... if you are interested in such explanation ...












