... 't forget the six foot tall talking bunny rabbit named Frank. The film is the brainchild of the 27 year old first-time writer/director Richard Kelly who, after graduating the University of Southern California Film School in 1997, set out to make a movie by writing the most complex script he could ... realized the originality and depth of the script, and it was ultimatly their excitement about the project that got the film off the ground with Kelly's vision intact. The script also drew many other high profile talents that were instrumental in the production of the movie such as Patrick Swa...

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... or his vertigo may return thus bringing him back to where he started in the opening scenes. Repetition is the key, as demonstrated in "Donny Darko" (written/directed by Richard Kelly). Here the ending of the film is the beginning when the aircraft falls out of the sky and lands on Donny Darko's house. The repetition in "Memento" is the fact ... ...

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Donnie Darko Review Donnie Darko, an eerie, heartbreaking portrait of a deeply troubled, psychotic teenager, marks the debut of Richard Kelly, a 26 year old director. The film is set in the late 1980's in an unidentified upper-middle-class neighborhood. Donnie Darko is the eldest of three children in what seems ... ...

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... and his sister argue with one another and you find out something disturbing about the family. The micro elements in this scene are all well done by the director, Richard Kelly. As I have commented throughout this piece of work, the editing is probably some of the best I have seen in a debut film by a director. ...

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Thank you Richard Kelly! How refreshing it is to see an original teen movie, one without Freddie Prinze Jr. or the usual plot of a geek who transforms into the most popular kid in school. It is a shame that this movie went straight to DVD after the events of September 11; it is a movie that makes ...

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