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Sleeping and Waking

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Sully has to find a way back from the darkness in his life.

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Critics Consensus

Retaining the hauntingly enigmatic atmosphere of its prior incarnation, Donnie Darko: The Director's Cut offers a more satisfyingly realized sense of mythology and theme.

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Leighton Walter Kille Boston Globe 08/27/2004
3.5/4
What remains unchanged is the realization of just what a superb actor Jake Gyllenhaal is. Go to Full Review Gary Dowell Dallas Morning News 08/26/2004
B+
It's a dreamlike, intuitive movie that has much to say about life and death and points in between. Go to Full Review Bob Longino Atlanta Journal-Constitution 08/26/2004
A
The new Darko is just as marvelous as the old. Go to Full Review Cole Smithey ColeSmithey.com 03/29/2009
3/5
Oddly not as good as the theatrical cut. Go to Full Review Beth Accomando KPBS.org 03/30/2007
The resulting film reveals an artist who has seriously reflected on his work and carefully considered what to add, what to alter and sometimes what to remove. Go to Full Review Mark Bourne DVDJournal.com 04/06/2006
...other additions -- most egregiously at the climax -- are just intrusive and reduce our interpretive choices by replacing them with one choice, purely science-fictional in a George Lucas 'midichlorians' sense, that's a diminishment, not an illumination. Go to Full Review Read all reviews

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05/13/2008 Director's Cut version that was given a limited theatrical run in 2004. A very small amount of footage was dropped while about 18 min. of deleted scenes are added. This is clearly the much better and more improved version. See more Read all reviews
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Joe Banno

Director

Jeff Allin

Sullivan Daniels

Hope Lambert

Amanda Daniels

Ray Ficca

Jerry

Elizabeth Jernigan

Renee

Helen Hedman

Mrs. Daniels
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Movie Info

Synopsis Sully has to find a way back from the darkness in his life.
Director
Joe Banno
Screenwriter
Chris Stezin
Production Co
Tontine Films
Genre
Drama, Romance
Original Language
English
Release Date (Streaming)
Feb 15, 2017
Runtime
1h 32m
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