While there, Donnie and his friends spot a seemingly senile old woman, who stands in the road in front of her house and is almost run over. Later, Donnie goes to a clearing and shoots bottles while his friends discuss the sexual components of Smurfs. Thurman hypnotizes Donnie at his next therapy session, but it ends with him discussing his sexual fantasies involving Christina Applegate while he unzips his pants, causing Thurman to end the session prematurely. Donnie also meets a girl named Gretchen Ross, who has recently moved into town with her mother under a new identity to escape her violent stepfather. Frank begins to influence Donnie's actions through his sleepwalking episodes, including causing him to flood his high school by breaking through a water main with an axe. She believes he is detached from reality and that his visions of Frank are " daylight hallucinations" due to paranoid schizophrenia. His parents, Eddie and Rose, consult with his psychiatrist, Dr. Over the next several days, Donnie continues to have visions of Frank. His older sister Elizabeth tells him the FAA investigators do not know its origin. Donnie wakes up the next morning on a local golf course and returns home to discover a jet engine has crashed into his bedroom. Once outside, he meets a figure in a monstrous rabbit costume whom Donnie comes to refer to as Frank who tells Donnie that the world will end in 28 days, 6 hours, 42 minutes and 12 seconds. Later that night, led by a mysterious voice, he sleepwalks out of his home. "Donnie" Darko has been experiencing bouts of sleepwalking and wakes up on a road before cycling home. On October 2, 1988, in the small town of Middlesex, Virginia, intellectual but troubled teenager Donald J. In 2021, he announced that work on a new sequel is in progress. Darko, followed in 2009 without Kelly's involvement. The film was adapted into a stage production in 2007 and a sequel, S. Kelly released Donnie Darko: The Director's Cut in 2004. In March 2002, the film was released on home video, earning $500,000 in sales and gained a cult following. After reissues, it went on to gross $7.5 million worldwide. Donnie Darko received positive reviews and was listed No. 2 in Empire 's "50 Greatest Independent Films of All Time", and No. 53 in Empire 's "500 Greatest Movies of All Time". Because the film's advertising featured a crashing plane and the September 11 attacks had occurred a month and a half before, it was scarcely advertised, which affected its box office performance it grossed just $517,375 in its initial run. The film premiered on Januat the Sundance Film Festival, followed by a limited theatrical release on October 26. 1 on the UK Singles Chart for three weeks. The soundtrack features a cover of " Mad World" by Tears for Fears by American musicians Gary Jules and Michael Andrews, which went to No. Filming took 28 days in the summer of 2000, mostly in California. Kelly insisted on directing the film in person and struggled to secure backing from producers until 2000, when Barrymore's Flower Films agreed to produce it on a $4.5 million budget. He took an early idea of a jet engine falling onto a house with no one knowing its origin and built the story around it. Frank begins to manipulate Donnie to commit several crimes.ĭevelopment began in late 1997 when Kelly had graduated from film school and started writing scripts. Set in October 1988, the film follows Donnie Darko, a troubled teenager who narrowly escapes a bizarre accident and has visions of Frank, a mysterious figure in a rabbit costume who informs him that the world will end in just over 28 days. It stars Jake Gyllenhaal, Jena Malone, Maggie Gyllenhaal, Drew Barrymore, Mary McDonnell, Katharine Ross, Patrick Swayze, Noah Wyle, Stu Stone, Daveigh Chase, and James Duval. Donnie Darko is a 2001 American science fiction psychological thriller film written and directed by Richard Kelly and produced by Flower Films.
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