Donnie Darko (2001)

What to Expect

Donnie Darko starts off with a beautiful view of some mountain scenery at dawn. Donnie is off his meds and wakes up from sleeping in the middle of the street next to his bike. He wakes up, smiles and casually bikes home. We get to meet his affluent family and get to see all of the crazy kids at his exclusive private school. Then one night he gets up to do some sleep walking around the neighborhood. He wakes up the next morning laid out in a golf course and walks home to find that a jet engine fell out of the sky and crashed right into his bedroom. Had he not been sleepwalking he would have been crushed. 

After this bizarre accident he starts to hallucinate visions of the future, wormhole things and a dude named Frank in a bunny suit. Frank tells him the world is going to end in 28 days, 6 hours, 42 minutes and 12 seconds (on Halloween) and encourages him to go on a petty crime spree around town.

Donnie Darko is a quirky but powerful movie that sits with you for days, for a number of reasons. It's a slow psychedelic mind bender with a lot of twists, turns, vibrant characters and a fantastic soundtrack.