Donnie Darko

by Richard Kelly (Director)

Other authorsMary McDonnell (Actor), Maggie Gyllenhaal (Primary Contributor), Maggie Gyllenhaal (Actor), Patrick Swayze (Actor), Jake Gyllenhaal (Primary Contributor), Jake Gyllenhaal (Actor), James Duval (Actor)
DVD, 2002

Status

Available

Call number

791.43

Collection

Publication

Prism Leisure Corporation (2004)

Description

"[A]n edgy, psychological thriller about a suburban teen coming face-to-face with his dark destiny. [Donnie Darko is] a delusional high-school student visited by a demonic rabbit with eerie visions of the past, and deadly predictions for the future."--Container.

User reviews

LibraryThing member comfypants
An unreasonably intense teenager is visited by (or hallucinates) a timetraveller in a creepy bunny costume.

It presents itself as a sort of jigsaw puzzle for the audience to solve. For years I thought it was a good movie that I just hadn't figured out yet. Then I found out (from a commentary or some
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other DVD bonus feature) that the writer/director did not in fact know what was going on. So, it doesn't actually make any sense. Re-watching it yesterday I tried to ignore the puzzle aspects and just enjoy the movie for what it was, but found it impossible. Even knowing there's no solution, I couldn't help trying to figure it out. It's just the nature of the plot; it challenges you to solve a puzzle with no solution. Extremely frustrating.
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Subjects

Language

Original language

English

Original publication date

2001-10-26

Physical description

7.48 inches

Barcode

2071
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