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Donnie Darko
Cast
Jake Gyllenhaal, Jena Malone, Drew Barrymore, James Duval View AllCrew
Richard Kelly (Screenplay), Richard Kelly (Director) View All
Release: Jan. 18th, 2001
Runtime: 1 hour, 53 minutes
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Were the subplots necessary in Donnie Darko?
I think I like the movie overall, but it's hard to decide, because I really like the main character's plot, but I feel that the Drew Barrymore subplot and the Patrick Swayze subplot, just don't seem t...
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This is more of a psychological Sci fi movie, akin to a 21st century Twilight Zone episode...punched up and brought to the big screen.

I plead with you, if you're going to watch Donnie Darko, watch the theatrical cut, not the director's cut.

None of that makes any sense either, Donnie is never demonstrated to have improved strength or elemental powers, and the people around him don't "encourage him" to get killed by the jet engine, and neither do the people around him that die do anything to force him to get killed by the jet ....