A Classic Ghost Story: Lynch meets Brady Bunch

Rating: 8/10 (1 January 2006)

My main take on this gem of a film the whole problem may be that American kids are over medicated. Screw the shrinks and the pills they hawk. Donnie takes his pills and POW  he winds up talking to his low budget rabbit head buddy. The soothing rabbit voice doesn't fit the toothy skull face, and the rest of the outfit is from Cheapsville. It's derivative of Matt Groening's rabbit in his early "Life in Hell" comic. Poor Donnie lives in an upper class Republican enclave, with a school dress code that reeks. His house has an elegant chandelier in the magnificent stairway, and a Porsche in the garage. It's these kind of top 5% folks that get the tax cuts and will pay shrinks $200 per hour, then think they are doing the right thing by showing their love with pills. When things don'ts seem to be working well, why not double the dose At the end, his Mom and kid sister are on a 747 and it seems to hit a storm, loses it's engine, which falls through a wormhole back in time 28 days to strike the house again, changing the Fabric of Time, so that the plane doesn't crash, right? I am thinking the whole movie is a construct so that Donnie gets to go back, in a parallel universe, to fall in love and get laid, so that he won't feel so ALONE, so he could take down Jim Cunningham, so he could double up on his meds.
Back t o the end again, Donnie drives away from home with dead Gretchen, like he knows he will meet the blinding light that will blast him back in the past. Earlier, the rabbit told Donnie the portal is Jim's house, but Donnie drives up into the hills.
Donnie puts an axe in the top of the Mong sculpture, but it looks like they could fix it with a bit of bondo. Why does the private school PTA ask for public donations to help fix it? I did like that line, "Feces are baby mice." Speaking of sexy smurfs, Drew Barrymore looks great, but acts dumb as a teacher. The new girl is told to pick the boy she thinks is the cutest, and then Drew orders Joanie to surrender her seat. Joanie should have pitched a bitch.
Overall, this is film is tremendous. I am only complaining about it because I haven't been taking my meds.