Watch The Trailer For Donnie Darko’s 15th Anniversary

Richard Kelly’s cult phenomenon Donnie Darko is returning to theatres this December to celebrate the film’s 15th (yes, fifteenth) anniversary.

Featuring an all-star cast including Jake Gyllenhaal, Drew Barrymore, Maggie Gyllenhaal, Jena Malone and Patrick Swayze, the film has become an icon of modernised American cinema, and now you see it presented in glorious 4K at your local multiplex. Ahead of the restoration release, here is the exclusive new trailer courtesy of Arrow Films.

Fifteen years before Stranger Things combined science-fiction, Spielberg-ian touches and 80s nostalgia to much acclaim, Writer/Director 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. This brand-new 4K restoration, carried out exclusively for this release by Arrow Films, allows a modern classic to finally receive the treatment it deserves.

Donnie Darko will have an exclusive run at BFI Southbank in London from 16th December, before a nationwide release on 23rd December. We think it’s the perfect anti-Christmas gift…

Source: Arrow Films