Today, 25 years ago, Jake Gyllenhaal was a teen in suburban America running around, talking to a giant rabbit, trying to work out why the world was seemingly about to end. Donnie Darko was released in theaters on October 26, 2001, and it was unlike anything else around at the time. Richard Kelly’s directorial debut would become one of the defining cult movies of the early 2000s. A strange mix of sci-fi, coming-of-age drama , mystery, and dark comedy ,

Gyllenhaal plays Donnie, a troubled teenager in 1988 who one night sleepwalks from his house. This is when he meets Frank, a 6-foot figure in a disturbing rabbit costume who informs him that the world will end in 28 days. Things get a lot weirder when Donnie comes home to find that somehow a jet engine has crashed through his bedroom.…