Some may think that Donnie Darko is a typical maladjusted teenager. Actually, Donnie is borderline delusional, beset by visions of a monstrous rabbit which is trying to keep him under its sinister influence.

Prompted by this apparition, Donnie commits antisocial acts while he is undergoing psychotherapy, surviving the vagaries of high-school life and romance, and fortuitously escaping a bizarre death from a falling jet engine.

Donnie battles his demons, literally and figuratively, in a series of intertwining story lines that play with time travel, fundamentalist gurus, fate, predestination and the machinations of the universe.

Directed by
Richard Kelly

Cast
Jake Gyllenhaal - Donnie Darko
Katharine Ross - Dr. Lillian Thurman
Drew Barrymore - Karen Pomeroy
Patrick Swayze - Jim Cunningham
Noah Wyle - Doctor Kenneth Monnitoff
Jena Malone - Gretchen Ross
Mary McDonnell - Rose Darko
Holmes Osborne - Eddie Darko
Maggie Gyllenhaal - Elizabeth Darko
Daveigh Chase - Samantha Darko
James Duval - Frank

Production Co.
Darko Productions
Adam Fields Productions
Flower Films
Pandora Films

Produced by
Drew Barrymore
Hunt Lowry
Casey La Scala

Studio
Newmarket Films

Writer
Richard Kelly

Music
Michael Andrews