Donnie Darko

Fantasy, Thriller, Mystery

Jake Gyllenhaal	Donnie Darko
Holmes Osborne	Eddie Darko
Maggie Gyllenhaal	Elizabeth Darko
Daveigh Chase	Samantha Darko
Mark Hoffman	Police Officer
James Duval	Frank
Mary McDonnell	Mrs. Rose Darko
Patrick Swayze	Jim Cunningham
Arthur Taxier	Dr. Fisher
David St. James	Bob Garland
Katharine Ross
Drew Barrymore
Jena Malone
Noah Wyle

Director	Richard Kelly; Dee Austin Robertson; Richard Kelly (II)
Producer	Nancy Juvonen; Drew Barrymore; Christopher Ball; Adam Fields
Writer	Richard Kelly
Cinematography	Steven B. Poster
Musician	Michael Andrews; John Taylor; Simon Le Bon; Giulio Caccini; Marc Ferrari; Nick Rhodes

Donnie Darko is an average highschool boy with too many problems at home and too many prescription anti-depressant drugs in his body. He is visited by an imaginary friend Frank: a man dressed in a bunny suit with a demonic mask for a face. Frank's influence on Donnie first results in Donnie waking up in his pajamas in the middle of a road, then in Donnie flooding the school at night, then with Donnie committing arson. Frank justifies his influence by telling Donnie that he is in danger, and, while he does wind up exposing a TV personality (Patrick Swayze) for who he really is, most of the crimes seem to be meaningless until the end, when all the threads come together to make Donnie understand that his life is determined by his actions, and the end is inescapable.