The Singing Detective (2003)

Katie plays: Nurse Mills
Release Date: October 24, 2003
Director: Keith Gordon
Written by: Dennis Potter
Production Company: Haft Entertainment
Filming locations: Chicago, Illinois, United States
Los Angeles, California, United States
Genre: Drama, Musical
Running Time: 1 hr. 49 min
MPAA Rating: Rated R for strong sexual content, language and some violence.





Plot Summary: Dan Dark gives new meaning to the term ìscars of childhood.î A hack writer of detective stories, he has suffered from psoriatic arthropathy, a crippling disease of the skin and bones, from the time he was eight-years-old. His latest and worst outbreak has landed him in the hospital where he deliriously tries to figure out who he is and how he got to this terrible place in his life. His fevered mind mingles real people with his fictional characters, and his past with his present. As his condition grows more desperate, he is dispatched to the charge of the eccentric psychiatrist Dr. Gibbons. Initially reluctant to confront his tortured past, Dark is gradually lured out from the ìcave in the rocksî under which his spirit has crawled. Dark is visited in the hospital by his ex-wife, whom he fears his sleeping with a character from his past and conspiring to steal the screenplay he wrote years ago of his first novel, The Singing Detective. But nothing is exactly what it appears here. In his hallucinatory state, Dark re-imagines the plot of his novel, casting himself in the starring role of a gumshoe who doubles as a singer in a dance band.
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Cast:
               ... Robert Downey Jr. as Dan Dark
               ... Robin Wright Penn as Nicola/Nina/Blonde
               ... Mel Gibson as Dr. Gibbon
               ... Jeremy Northam as Mark Binney
               ... Adrien Brody as First Hood




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