Donnie Darko ^re-release

Genre mix and brainteaser featuring a breakthrough role for Jake Gyllenhaal as the depressed Donnie. 28 days, 5 hours, 12 minutes and 42 seconds left until the world ends. Maryland, United States, 1988. The troubled teenager Donnie Darko (Jake Gyllenhaal) is tormented by the ominous appearance of a man-sized rabbit. The beast predicts the end of the world in exactly 28 days, 5 hours, 12 minutes and 42 seconds. In a series of bizarre events, including a jet engine crashing into Donnie's house, fate seems inevitable. After the prediction, Donnie is no longer the same. Everything seems to point to a strange disruption of time. How will he save himself, his friends and his family? Director Richard Kelly was only 26 years old and had not even graduated from film school when he made his debut; yet he managed to cast big names like Drew Barrymore and Patrick Swayze. The director reserved an important role for the gloomy eighties music of Echo & The Bunnymen, The Church and Joy Division.