It helped turn Jake Gyllenhaal into a big deal and played midnight screenings for years. But what the hell is 'Donnie Darko' about, really? For its 20th anniversary, we asked director Richard Kelly to explain his cult classic. He did ... sort of
tells the story of a troubled teenager named Donnie who’s prone to bouts of depression, as well as the occasional late-night sleepwalking session. After being compelled to wander the streets by a scary-looking guy in a rabbit costume named Frank, our protagonist discovers that he alone holds the keys for preventing the apocalypse — or something like that.
Early on in the film, before Donnie meets Frank, we’re introduced to his character’s family, the Darkos. There are Donnie’s parents, Eddie and Rose, played by Holmes Osborne and Mary McDonnell; his older sister Elizabeth, played by Jake Gyllenhaal’s real-life big sister Maggie Gyllenhaal; and his little sister Samantha, played by Daveigh Chase. In one of the film’s best-known scenes, the family sits down for a tense dinner.
Kelly himself grew up in the suburbs of Virginia, says he was very much writing from his own experience as an adolescent. Almost cosmically,was filmed in the Los Angeles suburb of Virginia Country Club, “a very affluent neighborhood that sort of resembles Virginia,” according to Kelly. For his part, Kelly seems to have a knack for reading where the culture is heading. “When we made this film, we were only looking back 12 years. So if you do the math on that, it would be like today you’re making a movie about 2009,” the director says. “And it seems like even just in terms of culture and technology, things haven’t really changed much in the past 12 years.”
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