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Donnie Darko

2001 · Science fiction · Richard Kelly · 1h 53m

A teenager in 1988 sleepwalks out of his bedroom, and a jet engine falls through the roof into it. A figure in a rabbit suit tells him the world ends in 28 days, and the film is in no hurry to explain.

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