"Donnie Darko" was first released just weeks after Sept. 11, 2001, timing that could not have been worse for first-time writer-director Richard Kelly. With its use of airplanes falling from the ...

Donnie Darko was a box office flop when it first hit theaters in October 2001 - a film about a jet engine falling from the sky didn’t seem particularly palatable in the wake of Sept. 11 - but in ...

While the ending of Donnie Darko has some dark implications, a deleted scene would have made the ending much less subtle and more gruesome.Filmmaker Richard Kelly initially captured a brief shot ...

Donnie Darko isn't simply explained one way, ... This explains why all those characters suffer from so much discomfort in the "Mad World" scene, leading to Jim Cunningham dying by suicide.

The scene sets a tone for a film that’s almost 100% earworms. It’s a mixture of the arch, ... Donnie Darko is a movie where even the small, strange performances are perfect, ...

What the hell is ‘Donnie Darko’ about? For the cult classic's 20th anniversary, ... In one of the film’s best-known scenes, the family sits down for a tense dinner.

Donnie Darko is, in most ... However the song is interspersed with snippets of dialogue from one of my favorite scenes in Donnie Darko, a dinner table argument about curse words and Michael Dukakis.

Donnie Darko is the ultimate “you’ll miss me when I’m gone” movie, ... It’s like that scene in The King Of Comedy, ...

A sprawling, surprising, often muddled plunge into the feverish imagination of a disturbed teenager, "Donnie Darko" has plenty of problems. This overweaningly ambitious picture will be difficult ...