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Last modified: Mar. 1, 2017

Donnie Darko

Release Date: Friday, July 23, 2004 Theaters Friday, March 31, 2017 Limited

Director: Richard Kelly

Starring: Jake Gyllenhaal Jena Malone Drew Barrymore Mary McDonnell Katharine Ross

R Fantasy 1 hr, 53 m

  • 3.9 / 5
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Plot

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Donnie is a troubled high school student: in therapy, prone to sleepwalking and in possession of an imaginary friend, a six-foot rabbit named Frank, who tells him the world is going to end in 28 days, 6 hours, 42 minutes and 12 seconds. During that time he will navigate teenage life, narrowly avoid death in the form of a falling jet engine, follow Frank's maladjusted instructions and try to maintain the space-time continuum.
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Crew Behind the Film

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The film's director Richard Kelly last directed The Box and Southland Tales. The film's writer Richard Kelly last wrote The Box and Southland Tales.

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Nancy Juvonen
Sean McKittrick
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Parent Rating
R Restricted for language, some drug use, and violence
Runtime
1 hr, 53 m
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Language
English

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Donnie Darko was released in nationwide movie theaters on Friday, July 23, 2004. There were 4 other movies released on the same date, including The Blind Swordsman: Zatoichi, A Home at the End of the World and Festival Express.

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