Donnie Darko

Year:	2001
Country:	USA
Language:	English
Genre:	Drama, Science Fiction
IMDB:	IMDB Page
Rating:	6.7 Rate
Collection:	Seen It Wishlist
Community:	17 Have Seen


Director	Richard Kelly
Selected Cast	Jake Gyllenhaal as Donnie Darko
	Holmes Osborne as Eddie Darko
	Maggie Gyllenhaal as Elizabeth Darko
	Daveigh Chase as Samantha Darko
Producer	Sean McKittrick
	Nancy Juvonen
	Adam Fields
Writer	Richard Kelly
Soundtrack	Michael Andrews
	Gary Jules

On DVD & Blu-ray World

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Donnie Darko - Pandora - UK (2005)

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Donnie Darko - Metrodome - UK (2004)

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Donnie Darko - Nordisk Film - Sweden

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Donnie Darko - 20th Century Fox - USA (2003)

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Donnie Darko - Anchor Bay Entertainment - Australia (2010)

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Donnie Darko - Madman - Australia (2004)

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Donnie Darko - MC One - Germany (2001)

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Donnie Darko - 20th Century Fox - USA (2008)

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Magic Marmalade 24th May 2023		I watched this again last night on my phone... (Was in the garden - lovely evening - one too many ales and dry roasted peanuts :) ...Noticed something I think I'd always been aware of, but had not joined the dots before for some reason: A big fat easter egg / unequivocal clue as to what is going on in this movie, and what it's all about is presented when Donnie goes to the cinema, and one of the movies playing there is: The Last Temptation Of Christ. (Bit of a heavy and obscure reference, but if you've seen that, it'll help getting your head around this somewhat - although I actually came away from last night's viewing with even more questions regarding the time frames presented here.... hmmmm.) Also, it has to be stated here that there is perhaps one of the best lines of dialogue in movie history: *"Sometimes I doubt your commitment to Sparkle Motion!"* (Cracks me up every time I see it :)



Magic Marmalade 9th Mar 2023		Rated 9/10 Quintessential Modern Gothic. Here's a movie that has since become regarded as a cult classic... but even that seems to have faded somewhat over recent years. The reason is, it's one of those profoundly weird, strange, and unsettling movies that people either come to dearly love, or just "don't get it". To characterise it, or convey a sense of it, I'd invite you to imagine David Lynch's Blue Velvet, done as an 80's / 90s teen high-school melodrama, about time travel (and the philosophy thereof)... ...The superficially idealised American suburban setting with a deep sense of something "off" about the world, in which, Donnie Darko, a high school student with profound mental health problems (history, and current issue of schizophrenia / arson / psychosis) feels very strongly the off-ness of the world around him, but of course, who would believe him anyway, he's crazy?!!! But he is visited by a very unsettling presence in the shape of a giant rabbit, who informs him of the imminent end of the world, and sets a clock ticking in a countdown to doomsday. Donnie must get to grips with not only his issues, but his family, friends, and school kids, their parents, teachers (one or two sympathetic, others not so), as well as the nature and philosophy of time travel in order to prevent this end of the world scenario. The bunny is a very malign and disturbing element in this movie, giving it the sheen of a horror movie, and the sense of time running out weighs like lead on these proceedings. And that's really what struck me when I first saw it all those years ago, as it was perfectly in tune with the times, at the turn of the millennium, and captures the sense of impending doom, and an undefinable sense of all pervading dread... heightened and exacerbated by the evident obliviousness of others to this coming unidentifiable calamity, as they chunter about their lives in blissfull ignorance while those like Donnie, are all too sensible to the peril. I'd simply say that, if you are of the cast of mind, like mine, of being what I like to think of as "A Natural Melancholic"... (As distinct from depressive - the one being the nature of the person, the other, an affliction contrary to the natural, or desired state) ...You'll find a strong ring of truth, and will sympathise entirely with the mood created here, but of not, I don't thin this movie is perhaps for you. To conclude, while it's been a while since I saw the original theatrical release (my DVD is scratched to buggery, and won't play, so need a replacement), I have recently picked up a DVD of the "Director's Cut" which adds a couple of features briefly it seems, like chapter headings, and changes a couple of already well chosen eighties songs in the soundtrack, but overall, nothing really leapt out at me in being dramatically different, so far as it might alter the tone, point or purpose of the movie - it's still the same basic movie as far as I can see - so I don't think it makes too much difference tot he experience which version you might choose to see. A great, strange movie that captures the mood of the cusp of a change of eras. ✔︎ Helpful Review?



Magic Marmalade 15th Jan 2016

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