This film was proposed by our member Naomi Rennard, who writes: 'Proposed by my 15 year old: Donnie Darko is a film about a lonely teenager who hallucinates a rabbit man called Frank who ends up saving his life. Donnie is now forever in his debt. I don’t want to spoil anymore but there is much more to it than that. The film manages to combine horror, sci fi, comedy, and teenage themes. This is packed with an amazing cast with at the time young actors before they were famous including: Jake Gyllenhaal, Jena Malone, Maggie Gyllenhaal, and Seth Rogan.'

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.

Please note, the screening on Tuesday 23 September is our free members' screening, while the one on Monday 29 September is a regular screening, which is open to the general public.

Cast:
Jake Gyllenhaal, Jena Malone, Drew Barrymore, Maggie Gyllenhaal, Patrick Swayze