Donnie Darko

Donnie Darko is a 2001 American science fiction psychological thriller drama film, written and directed by Richard Kelly, and starring Jake Gyllenhaal, Drew Barrymore, Patrick Swayze, Maggie Gyllenhaal, Noah Wyle, Jena Malone, and Mary McDonnell. The film depicts the adventures of the title character, a teenager, as he seeks the meaning and significance behind his troubling Doomsdayrelated visions.

On October 2, 1988, Donnie Darko Jake Gyllenhaal, a troubled teenager living in Middlesex, Virginia, is awakened and led outside by a figure in a monstrous rabbit costume, who introduces himself as Frank and tells him the world will end indays,hours, 42 minutes, andseconds. At dawn, Donnie returns home to find a jet engine has crashed into his bedroom. His older sister, Elizabeth Maggie Gyllenhaal, informs him the FAA investigators do not know where it came from.Donnie tells his psychotherapist, Dr. Thurman Katharine Ross, about his continuing visits from Frank. Acting under Franks influence, he floods his school by damaging a water main. He also begins dating new student Gretchen Ross Jena Malone, who has moved to town with her mother under a new identity to escape her violent stepfather. Gym teacher Kitty Farmer Beth Grant blames the flooding on the influence of the short story The Destructors, assigned by dedicated English teacher Karen Pomeroy Drew Barrymore, and begins teaching attitude lessons taken from motivational speaker Jim Cunningham Patrick Swayze. Donnie rebels against these motivational lessons, leading to friction between Kitty and Donnies mother Rose Mary McDonnell. ........

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