Richard Kelly Filmography

Born:: March 28, 1975 in Newport News, VA
Occupation:: Director, Producer, Screen Story, Screenwriter
Biography:: Born and raised in Virginia to a family of engineers, filmmaker Richard Kelly claimed to hate high school, even though he was accepted by the popular crowd. He got a visual arts scholarship and moved out West to attend the University of Southern California in the School of Fine Arts. He made two...Read More

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The Box

Crew: Director, Screenwriter

Actors: Cameron Diaz, James Marsden, Frank Langella

Synopsis: Screen siren Cameron Diaz and former X-Man James Marsden star in the supernatural horror picture The Box (2008), directed by Donnie Darko cult fave Richard Kelly. The film's premise involves a strange and ominous box granted to a young couple by a mysterious stranger (Frank Langella). They are Read More

9/11/09
World's Greatest Dad

Crew: Producer

Synopsis: Robin Williams stars as a father who fakes a suicide note for his recently deceased son in order to give him a bit of dignity rather than admit to his accidental autoerotic death in this black comedy from writer/director Bobcat Goldthwait. ~ Jeremy Wheeler, All Movie Guide Read More

1/1/09
Southland Tales

Crew: Director, Screenwriter

Actors: Dwayne Johnson, Seann William Scott, Sarah Michelle Gellar, Curtis Armstrong, Joe Campana

Synopsis: California is at the epicenter of a political and environmental disaster that threatens to destroy the world in this ambitious fusion of comedy, drama, dystopian science fiction, and music from writer and director Richard Kelly, his first film after gaining a cult following with Donnie Darko. In Read More

11/14/07
Domino

Crew: Screen Story, Screenwriter

Actors: Keira Knightley, Mickey Rourke, Edgar Ramirez, Delroy Lindo

Synopsis: The (mostly) true story of a Hollywood princess turned bounty hunter is told in this witty action-drama from director Tony Scott. Domino Harvey (Keira Knightley) was the daughter of famed actor Laurence Harvey (played by Jesse Pate) who passed on when Domino was only eight years old. Domino's Read More

10/14/05
Donnie Darko

Crew: Director, Screenwriter

Actors: Jake Gyllenhaal, Jena Malone, Mary McDonnell, Holmes Osborne, Maggie Gyllenhaal, Drew Barrymore, Patrick Swayze

Synopsis: Donnie (Jake Gyllenhaal) is a bright and charming high-school student who also has a dark and willfully eccentric side; he does little to mask his contempt for many of his peers and enjoys challenging the authority of the adults around him. Donnie is also visited on occasion by Frank, a monstrous Read More

10/26/01