Donnie Darko is a disturbed adolescent from a semi-functional, upper-middle class family gifted with a sharp intellect and vivid imagination but he's also a bit weird. Donnie's off his medication, and when his bedroom is obliterated by a falling airliner engine, he becomes increasingly delusional and convinced the world will end in 28 days. Aided by an imaginary friend, he embarks on an increasingly crazed series of actions, which horrify his teachers, scare his parents and amaze his friends.

"The director's cut adds footage that enriches and extends the material but doesn't alter its tone." Chicago Sun Times

"***** (5 STARS!) This is why we go to the movies .The smartest film you'll see this decade! A triumph." Triple M

"Richard Kelly takes this pert-near perfect film and makes it even more so. Without giving too much away, we get to spend more time with the two most 'powerful' women in the film, Drew Barrymore's rebel teacher, Ms Pomeroy, and the enigmatic Grandma Death/Roberta Sparrow, making things more intense, intriguing and interesting." Megan Spencer, Triple JJJ

"Donnie Darko: The Director's Cut" is alive, original and intriguing. It's about a character who has no explanation for what is happening in his life, and is set in a world that cannot account for prescient rabbits named Frank." Chicago Sun Times

".may be the truest depiction on film of the troubled adolescent mind."
-- Josh Larsen, SUN PUBLICATIONS (CHICAGO, IL)

"It's ultimately Kelly's inventive storytelling and the myriad of complex themes he explores that capture one's imagination and, in this reviewer's case, re-ignite one's passion for the medium."
-- Annlee Ellingson, BOXOFFICE MAGAZINE

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