6 Mind-Bending ‘Donnie Darko’ Facts on Film’s 15th Anniversary (Photos)

6 Mind-Bending ‘Donnie Darko’ Facts on Film’s 15th Anniversary (Photos)

Jake Gyllenhaal starred as a teenager dealing with bizarre visions of a menacing figure in a rabbit mask named Frank in writer-director Richard Kelly’s 2001 film “Donnie Darko.”

With the help of IMDb’s trivia section for the film, TheWrap has amassed six fun facts about the movie:

[...] references to the movie, along with other Kelly favorites — “E.T. the Extra-Terrestrial” (bike scene pictured) and “Back to the Future” — appear in the film.

The “Pineapple Express” actor played a high school bully in the film, which was set in the 1980s.

Patrick Swayze, who played a motivational speaker whose deeply troubled propensities become found out, wore his own clothes from the 1980s in the film, according to Kelly.

Even writer-director Kelly doesn’t know exactly whether the movie depicts Darko’s dreams or if it takes place in an alternate plane of existence. think that ultimately both of those things could be true, he said in an interview.

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