Donnie also embeds the ax in the head of the school’s solid bronze statue of its mascot and spray-paints “They made me do it” on the sidewalk. This greatly troubles Donnie, who worries that life has no meaning.Ī few days later, Frank appears to Donnie in a hallucination and encourages him to flood the private high school he attends by breaking open the water main with an ax. A senile old woman who spends her days walking back and forth from her house to the mailbox across the street, Grandma Death whispers in Donnie’s ear that all that lives ultimately dies alone. On the way to the office of Dr Thurman (Katherine Ross), Donnie’s therapist, Donnie and Eddie nearly run over Roberta Sparrow, also known as “Grandma Death” (Patience Cleveland). Had he not been sleepwalking, he would have been killed. That night, a jet engine mysteriously crashes through the roof of the Darkos’ house, destroying Donnie’s room.
Frank tells him that in 28 days, 6 hours, 42 minutes and12 seconds, the world will end.
On October 2nd, however, he sleepwalks and meets Frank, a man in a menacing bunny costume. Guilty, Donnie resumes taking his medication. Rose confronts Donnie in his bedroom and he calls her a bitch. One night at dinner, Donnie and his sister get into a profane argument during which Elizabeth reveals she knows Donnie is no longer taking his medication. His parents, Rose and Eddie (Mary McDonnell and Holmes Osborne) and his sisters, Elizabeth and Samantha (Maggie Gyllenhall and Daveigh Chase), worry about him. A schizophrenic with a history of violence, he has recently stopped taking his medication and as a result is sleepwalking. Donnie Darko (Jake Gyllenhall) is a troubled teenager in suburban Maryland.
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