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Rating: Null/10 (16 August 2004)

Death from an alternate timeline crashes into us alldistant thunderwhere do you go at night?wake up' to a man-sized rabbit28 days16 hours42 minutes12 secondsthat is when the world will endDonnie Darko is advised by Frank, in an echoed hushhis sister gets home after a datejet engine from a Tangent Universe lands in his bedroomwaking up on a golf course, Donnie becomes the Living Receiverhe smilesthey don't know where it came from or what happened to the plane?destruction as a form of creationnew girl sits next to Donniedream of a school with water floors and sky ceilingwake up, Donnie' to see Manipulated Dead Frank the bunny-manthere is a solid water barrier between him and Frank'I can do anything I want, and so can you'he smilesflooding his school, sleep golfing, burning down a househe begins the most beautiful tenuous relationshiphis sleepwalking, his hallucinations, his arson in his past, pills and therapy for his general "detachment from reality", with something frightening and unknown in his futurethe Philosophy of Time Travel'a book written by Grandma Death aka Roberta Sparrow continuously checking her mailboxusing the Fourth Dimensional Construct of water, Manipulated Dead Frank manipulates the Living Receiver Donnieup the stairs to his parents' closethe opens a box and finds a handgun wrapped in clothwhat if you could go back in time and take all those hours of pain and darkness, and replace them with something betterright now there's some fat guy over there staring at ushacking at the wall of water between themlight beams from Frank's eyeunder the mask is a guy with long hair and a bleeding eye the sky's gonna open upthe party suddenly, in a work of timeline manipulating, can happenwe should totally throw a partyanybody seen Frank?'there's a car comingDeus ex Machinayou killed her Frankthe sky is getting darkDonnie guides the artifact back to the Primary Universesee the whole film in reverseback to Donnie laughing in his room when the engine hitsnow enlightened he anticipates the something better'Frank feeling his eye Gretchen and his mom wave with uncertaintyremembering the future that won't happenfirst film from director Richard Kellyfull of great references and appropriate music (ie. Echo and the Bunnymen)similar, though not as scary as the rabbit in Sexy BeastDrew Barrymore, as producer, was apparently a major factor in getting this film made.