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Donnie Darko (2001)

After troubled teen Donnie Darko (Jake Gyllenhaal) wakes on a local golf course after a night of sleepwalking, he has a vision of a man in a rabbit suit telling him that the world will end in 28 days. Returning home, Donnie sees that a jet engine has fallen on his bedroom in the night, and begins to feel increasingly detached from reality. Scrambling to make sense of the bizarre and unexplainable events that have altered his life, Donnie finds himself unravelling a tangled web of disaster and fate.

Donnie Darko
R
Drama
Documentary
Fantasy
Mystery
Sci-Fi
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Director
Richard Kelly
Release Date
October 26, 2001
Studio(s)
Newmarket Films
Distributor(s)
Newmarket Films
Cast
Jake Gyllenhaal , Holmes Osborne , Maggie Gyllenhaal , Daveigh Chase , Mary McDonnell , James Duval
Writers
Richard Kelly
Runtime
113 minutes
Budget
$6 million

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