Film review of Donnie Darko

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Natalie Faulkner 11IM        GCSE Assignment 2        08/05/2007

Film review of Donnie Darko

Film reviewed by= Natalie Faulkner,

Director= Richard Kelly,

Writer= Richard Kelly,

Genre= thriller, fantasy, sci fiction, Drama and horror,

Length of film= 113 minutes

Stars/characters= Jake Gyllenhaal, Jena Malone, Drew Barrymore, Maggie Gyllenhaal, Mary McDonnell, Holmes Osborne and Patrick Swayze, Katharine Ross and Noah Wyle

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Donnie Darko (Jake Gyllenhaal) is a Middlesex high schooler that suffers from mental disabilities, and has refused to take his medication.         One night during the 1988 presidential election, the grotesque, demonic, giant rabbit known only as “frank”, tells him that the world will exactly end in 28 days, six hours, forty two minutes and twelve seconds, and the tangent universe shall be no more.                

He then returns home the next morning to find that “frank” may have saved his life from being obliterated by a jet engine that falls from the sky, which crashes into his bedroom.                He then carries ...

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