Donnie Darko DVD

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Writer-director Richard Kelly&s bold debut film is a social satire a dark comedy a science fiction time-travelling fantasy & a suburban nightmare about an extremely intelligent depressive self-destructive narcoleptic gun-toting sex-crazed teenaged arsonist Donnie Darko (Jake Gyllenhaal) DONNIE DARKO is not your typical teen comedy But like GHOST WORLD & RUSHMORE it uses the trappings of the teen comedy as the entry point for a subversive & trenchant (and also wonderfully entertaining) look at American life The difference between those films & DONNIE DARKO is that Donnie is an unlikely hero who just might save the world It&s October 1988 in the Virginia suburb of Middlesex When Frank a grotesque giant bunny (possibly imaginary) leads Donnie out of his house minutes before a plane smashes through his roof he not only saves Donnie&s life but also warns Donnie that the world is about to end Over the next few weeks Donnie falls in love with Gretchen (Jena Malone) & tries to figure out what his life means Kelly&s film perfectly captures the unease that is quietly scratching under the surface of suburban late 1980s life Gyllenhaal leads an exceptional cast bringing Kelly&s twisted but humane vision to life An exceptional performance is given by Mary Mc Donnell (PASSION FISH) as Donnie&s mother