Donnie Darko

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

Drew Barrymore, Jake Gyllenhaal, Patrick Swayze, Jena Malone, Sean McKittrick, Richard Kelly, Noah Wyle, Mary McDonnell, Nancy Juvonen, Adam Fields, Katharine Ross

R Fantasy 1 hr, 53 m

  • 3.9

63%

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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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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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Adam Fields
Nancy Juvonen
Sean McKittrick
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MPA 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, The Bourne Supremacy and A Home at the End of the World.



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