The film is set against the background of the 1988 election campaign in America. Donnie Darko is in therapy and on medication since he set fire to an abandoned house. He is sixteen years old and lives with his parents and two sisters. Donnie is intellectually brilliant but delusional teenager and sleepwalks long distances. When he wakes he finds himself on the local golf course and on returning home, he discovers that an airplane engine has dropped off and destroyed his bedroom overnight.
He finds communication difficult but has started a relationship with a new girl at school where his teachers encourage his interest in time travel. He is having hypnotic therapy from his therapist. Meanwhile, the voices in his head have taken the form of a six-foot evil rabbit called Frank. This monster persuades him to carry out acts of vandalism starting with breaking the school’s main water line and ending with murder. He also lets Donnie in on a secret: the world is going to end before the month is out on Halloween night!
Frank introduces Donnie to time travel and is able to accurately forecast future events. This convinces Donnie that Frank is real and not a figment of his imagination as his therapist tries to convince him.
I have never seen this movie. My sister is a junior and is crazy about the 80's (including the breakfast club, pretty n pink, etc.) . She got it for her birthday back in January and ive never watched it. Is it worth watchin?
If Babe is a man, do you still think Babe sounds sexy?
714, The Sultan of Swat, Bambino, Mr. Ruth. He also loved 80's movies (big Molly Ringwald fan). "hot dogs, hummers, and Molly Ringwald (cough, cough cough)."
first of all your an idiot. second i think Donnie Darko is really underrated and way over hyped. i mean it's obviously a good movie but that doesn't mean you have to have sex with your donnie darko dvd in front of all your friends or strangers who don't give a f u c k.
and if you like this movie for any of the following reasons then you are sad: "i like this movie because ...": jake gyllenhaal is so cute. it has something to do with the 80's and since i'm a poser scene kid approving of this movie will really impress my art school friends. the script has so many christian overtones and innuendos ... oh and george bush makes a camio, i just love him and his genius son too. i have to take pills too, just like donnie darko. someone that i wish i was cool enough to be likes it.
f u c k any a$$hole that wants to discuss donnie darko on the internet. get a life you miserable f u c k!
Looks like eat me has some sexually repressed thoughts about Jake Gyllenhall. Kind of reminds me of the psycho dad in American Beauty who apparently despised gay people, but then turned out to be gay himself.
I believe you just talked about Donnie Darko on the internet even if it was in a critical manner.
P.S. Who the **** says "eat me." you might as well have said "go #uck a duck"
This is for you "eat me" I really liked Donnie Darko because it adresses time travel in a way that has not been shown in film before. Usually some a$$ hole scientists uses some crappy metalic car to go back in time and the results are zany misadventures. But in Darko he doesn't get to dick around in hill valley or whatever he decides that living in a world where his mother and sister are dead due to a plain crash, his girl friend is dead due to Frank the rabbit, and he is left in prison for killing Frank is horrible. Donnie would rather give his own life so none of the previously mentioned events could occur than see his world brought to an end with him still in it. Sounds like that Mel Gibson flick "The Passion-o-Christo eh?
This is for you "eat me" I really liked Donnie Darko because it adresses time travel in a way that has not been shown in film before. Usually some a$$ hole scientists uses some crappy metalic car to go back in time and the results are zany misadventures. But in Darko he doesn't get to dick around in hill valley or whatever he decides that living in a world where his mother and sister are dead due to a plain crash, his girl friend is dead due to Frank the rabbit, and he is left in prison for killing Frank is horrible. Donnie would rather give his own life so none of the previously mentioned events could occur than see his world brought to an end with him still in it. Sounds like that Mel Gibson flick "The Passion-o-Christo eh?
