Donnie Darko
Record details
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Physical Description:
1 streaming video file (113 min.) : digital, sound, color
remote - Publisher: [United States] : Donnie Darko Distribution, 2001.
- Distributor: Vaughan, ON : Criterion-on-Demand, [2013]
Content descriptions
General Note: | Originally released as a motion picture by Donnie Darko Distribution,2001. |
Restrictions on Access Note: | Access restricted to subscribers. |
Creation/Production Credits Note: | Director of photography, Steven Poster ; editors, Sam Bauer, Eric Strand ; music, Michael Andrews. |
Participant or Performer Note: | Jake Gyllenhaal, Jena Malone, Drew Barrymore, Mary McDonnell, Katharine Ross, Patrick Swayze, Noah Wyle. |
Target Audience Note: | MPAA rating: R; for language, some underage drinking and alcohol use, and violence. |
System Details Note: | Content available as downloadable file or streaming video. |
Source of Description Note: | Title from distributor's web site (viewed Feb 11, 2015). |
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Subject: | Supernatural -- Drama Hypnotism -- Drama Imaginary companions -- United States -- Drama Teenagers -- United States -- Drama Paranoid schizophrenia -- United States -- Drama |
Genre: | Thrillers (Motion pictures) Science fiction films. Films for the hearing impaired. Feature films. Streaming video. |
Summary:
Donnie Darko is a paranoid schizophrenic, anti-social teenager who is in therapy and using medication. He has visions of a giant Fuzzy Bunny named Frank who instructs him to commit violent acts. Donnie is the only one who can see him. He gets along badly with his family, with his teachers and with his classmates. Eventually, he does manage to find a sympathetic friend in Gretchen, who agrees to date him. He has a compassionate psychiatrist who discovers hypnosis is the means to unlock hidden secrets. When an engine falls off a plane and destroys his room, thanks to Frank, Donnie is not there. Both the event, and Donnie's escape, seem to have been caused by supernatural events. With Donnie's mental illness, he may never allow him to find out for sure.