Donnie Darko (2001) (Theatrical & Director's Cut) (Blu-ray) (UK Import)

Donnie Darko ist kein gewöhnlicher Sechzehnjähriger. Introvertiert und emotional labil, pflegt er eine Freundschaft mit Frank - einem riesigen Kaninchen, dass nur er sehen kann. Als Donnie eines Nachts von seinem imaginären Freund geweckt wird, ändert sich sein Leben für immer...

Richard Kellys (alb-)traumhafter Genre-Mix aus Science-Fiction, Coming-of-Age und phantastischem Thriller entwickelte sich zu dem wohl ersten Kultklassiker des neuen Jahrtausends und besticht durch einen großartigen Cast mit u.a. Jake und Maggie Gyllenhaal, Patrick Swayze, Katherine Ross, Drew Barrymore und Fernsehliebling Noah Wyle und eine unvergesslichen 80er-Jahre Soundtrack.

Fifteen years before Stranger Things combined science fiction, Spielbergian touches and 80s nostalgia to much acclaim, Richard Kelly set the template – and the high-water mark – with his debut feature, Donnie Darko. Initially beset with distribution problems, it would slowly find its audience and emerge as arguably the first cult classic of the new millennium.

Donnie is a troubled high school student: in therapy, prone to sleepwalking and in possession of an imaginary friend, a six-foot rabbit named Frank, who tells him the world is going to end in 28 days, 06 hours, 42 minutes and 12 seconds. During that time he will navigate teenage life, narrowly avoid death in the form of a falling jet engine, follow Frank’s maladjusted instructions and try to maintain the space-time continuum.

Described by its director as “The Catcher in the Rye as told by Philip K. Dick”, Donnie Darko combines an eye-catching, eclectic cast – pre-stardom Jake and Maggie Gyllenhaal, heartthrob Patrick Swayze, former child star Drew Barrymore, Oscar nominees Mary McDonnell and Katharine Ross, and television favourite Noah Wyle – and an evocative soundtrack of 80s classics by Echo and the Bunnymen, Tears for Fears and Duran Duran.

Specials

Brand new 4K restorations of both the Theatrical Cut and the Director's Cut from the original camera negatives produced by Arrow Films exclusively for this release, supervised and approved by director Richard Kelly and cinematographer Steven Poster
High Definition Blu-ray (1080p) presentations of both cuts
Original 5.1 audio
Optional English subtitles for the deaf and hard of hearing
Audio commentary by writer-director Richard Kelly and actor Jake Gyllenhaal on the Theatrical Cut
Audio commentary by Kelly, producer Sean McKittrick and actors Drew Barrymore, Jena Malone, Beth Grant, Mary McDonnell, Holmes Osborne, Katharine Ross and James Duval on the Theatrical Cut
Audio commentary by Kelly and filmmaker Kevin Smith on the Director s Cut
Brand-new interviews with Richard Kelly and others
The Goodbye Place, Kelly's 1996 short film, which anticipates some of the themes and ideas of his feature films
The Donnie Darko Production Diary, an archival documentary charting the film's production with optional commentary by cinematographer Steven Poster
Twenty deleted and alternate scenes with optional commentary by Kelly
Archive interviews with Kelly, actors Jake Gyllenhaal, Jena Malone, Drew Barrymore, James Duval, Maggie Gyllenhaal, Holmes Osborne, Noah Wyle and Katharine Ross, producers Sean McKittrick, Nancy Juvonen, Hunt Lowry and Casey La Scala, and cinematographer Steven Poster
Three archive featurettes: They Made Me Do It, They Made Me Do It Too and #1 Fan: A Darkomentary
Storyboard comparisons
B-roll footage
Cunning Visions infomercials
Music video: Mad World by Gary Jules
Galleries
Trailers
TV spots
Reversible sleeve featuring original and newly commissioned artwork by Candice Tripp

Rezensionen

Film-ab.​de: "Der klügste Teenagerfilm seit Jahren.​" DVD Vision: "Verworren und bizarr, reizvoll und intelligent erzählt.​ Unter Genre-Anhängern hohes Kultpotential.​"