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DONNIE DARKO - OFFICIAL PRESS KIT
Metrodome Distribution Presents in association with Pandora, a Flower Films production
DONNIE DARKO
Written and directed by Richard Kelly
Starring Jake Gyllenhaal , Jena Malone, Drew Barrymore, Mary McDonnell, Holmes Osborne, Katharine Ross,
Patrick Swayze and Noah Wyle.
Twenty eight days, six hours, forty two minutes and twelve seconds... that is when the world will end
Donnie Darko
In a funny, moving and distinctly mind-bending journey through suburban America, one extraordinary but disenchanted
teenager is about to take Time's Arrow for a ride…
October 2nd, 1988: just another ordinary day in Donnie Darko's teenage existence. He's taken his medication,
watched the Dukakis and Bush debate, and had dinner with the family. Then comes a shocking accident. Out of the
blue, a huge jet engine plummets from the sky and crashes into Donnie's bedroom, obliterating it. Luckily,
Donnie isn't in bed. Or is it luck? As Donnie begins to explore what it means to still be alive, and to be in
love, he uncovers secrets of the universe that give him a tempting power to alter time and destiny.
From 26 year-old first-time writer-director Richard Kelly comes the provocative Donnie Darko, a genre-busting
fable that blasts the American suburban drama into a wildly imaginative realm of time travel, alternative universes
and the manipulation of one's fate. But at the core of Donnie Darko is the simple story of a boy trying to make a
stand in a lonely, chaotic world, and discovering that every little thing he does counts on a cosmic scale.
Seen at the 2001 Sundance Film Festival, Donnie Darko became one of the festival's most talked-about and debated films,
praised for blending sci-fi fantasy with an original vision of a modern suburbia teetering on the edge of dread and
disaster. The question became: what is Donnie Darko? Is it a look back at the underbelly of the Ferris Bueller and
Back to the Future era? Or is it a wild journey into multiple realities and multiple outcomes? Is it the story of
an increasingly cynical, hypocritical society on a crash-course with apocalypse? Or is it a fairy-tale about a teen
hero who changes the world around him? Is this the cosmic death knell of the Reagan Era, or a portrait of a troubled
community redeemed by the hand of God?
The surprising answer is that Donnie Darko is all of these - a deep inquiry into the recent past and the possibilities
for the future all wrapped up in the story of a teenager unlike any you've met before. Writer/director Richard Kelly
purposefully wanted Donnie Darko to be vast enough to mean different things to different people. But he offers this
guidance for the mind-blowing ride ahead: "Maybe it's the story of Holden Caulfield, resurrected in 1988 by the spirit
of Phillip K. Dick, who was always spinning yarns about schizophrenia and drug abuse breaking the barriers of space
and time. Or it's a black comedy foreshadowing the impact of the 1988 presidential election, which is really the best
way to explain it. But first and foremost, I wanted the film to be a piece of social satire that needs to be
experienced and digested several times."
Donnie Darko is a Richard Kelly film starring Jake Gyllenhaal, Jena Malone, Drew Barrymore, Mary McDonnell, Holmes Osborne,
Katharine Ross, Patrick Swayze, Maggie Gyllenhaal, Beth Grant, James Duval, Daveigh Chase and Noah Wyle. The producers are
Sean McKittrick, Nancy Juvonen and Adam Fields. Drew Barrymore, Hunt Lowry and Casey LaScala are executive producers, along
with Will Tyrer, Chris J. Ball and Aaron Ryder.
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