Donnie Darko (2001)

(SPOILER ALERT: DO NOT READ THIS POST IF YOU DON'T WANT TO KNOW WHO DIES IN THE END)

[And now for a classic mini Plot Buster. If I had a penny for every time someone's said that they didn't understand the subject of this movie, well I wouldn't exactly be a millionaire, but I'd certainly be on my way.

The problem with some movies is that they practically defy being Busted, because you pare away so much of the irrelevant plot, that you suddenly find yourself with an empty pair of hands. Under those circumstances everyone has the right to say that they didn't understand what was going on;)]

Donnie Darko (2001) is an American science fiction film written and directed by Richard Kelly, starring Jake Gyllenhaal.

Jake Gyllenhaal dies in the end.

Jake Gyllenhaal is a troubled high school student, whose habit of sleepwalking miraculously saves him from being killed when a jet engine falls through a time-warp and then through his bedroom ceiling.

Following this near miss he falls in love with the new girl in school, while suffering a series of increasingly surreal hallucinations that lead him to discover the secret of time travel.

When his new girl is accidentally killed by a swerving car, Jake Gyllenhaal uses this knowledge to wind back time to save her, but in the process is himself killed by the same aircraft engine that had fallen on his previously empty bed.

I've left out various sub-plots. But that's basically what the film's about:)

[Notice that although it would be usual to abbreviate Jake Gyllenhaal to just Gyllenhaal in a Plot Buster, in this case his name is used in full, to disambiguate it from that of his sister's, Maggie, who also stars in the movie, although that fact is not included in the Bust.]

Source(s):
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Donnie_Darko