Original “Donnie Darko” @ Guild Cinema


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This event finished on 01 July 2017


Donnie Darko: The Original Theatrical Cut at the Guild Cinema
Friday & Saturday, June 30-July 1 – 10:30 pm only

Directed by Richard Kelly – 2001 – 113m.  An Alibi Midnight Madness presentation!  All seats $8.00.
Door Prizes courtesy of Bubonicon 49!

Fifteen years before Stranger Things, 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 ER star Noah Wyle and an evocative soundtrack of 80s classics by Echo and the Bunnymen, Tears for Fears and Duran Duran.

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The Guild Cinema is located at 3450 Central Avenue NE, in the Nob Hill area.

Website: GuildCinema.com