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Donnie Darko [Director's Cut]

Donnie Darko [Director's Cut]
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Price: £17.99
Format: Blu-ray
Languages: English
No. of Disks: 1
Region: Region 2
Release Date: 01 January 2020
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October 3nd, 1988: It was the time of Dukakis vs. Bush. It was the time of Hungry Hungry Hippos and Stephen Hawking. It was the time of Duran Duran and Sparkle Motion. It was the time of Donnie Darko, an American teen who took time’s arrow for a ride. . .

October 2nd, 1988 was just another ordinary day in Donnie Darko's disenchanted
existence. He's taken his medication, watched the presidential debate on television, and had dinner with his family. Then a terrifying accident occurs—a plane engine inexplicably falls from the sky, crashing through the Darko home and destroying Donnie’s room.

In the aftermath of the accident, which just misses claiming his life, Donnie experiences a heightened sense of what it means to be alive, and soon, in love. Armed with an arcane text entitled The Philosophy of Time Travel, Donnie soon uncovers the ability to unravel the threads that bind the universe together, along with the temptation to alter time and destiny.

But is Donnie imagining it all? Extraordinarily intelligent, Donnie also sleepwalks, takes his anti-psychotic medication haphazardly, has frequent hallucinations, and is regularly visited by Frank, an eerie, implacable presence who warns Donnie that the world as he knows it will end in 28 days.

Yet all these things are the least of Donnie’s troubles. The crux of his existence is the terrifying world around him—an 80s fantasia besotted by pop culture, material excess, fundamentalism, encroaching cynicism, prescription drugs, and rampant hypocrisy.