The Singing Detective
The Singing Detective is a 2003 American musical crime comedy film directed by Keith Gordon and loosely based on the BBC serial of the same name, a work by British writer Dennis Potter. It stars Robert Downey Jr. and features a supporting cast that includes Katie Holmes, Adrien Brody, Robin Wright Penn, Mel Gibson and Carla Gugino as well as a number of songs from the 1950s.
Plot
Suffering from the skin disease psoriasis and crippling psoriatic arthritis, detective novelist Dan Dark is in such pain in a hospital that he begins to delve into fantasy, resulting in several storylines told simultaneously:
More details
| author | Dennis Potter |
|---|---|
| contentLocation | Los Angeles |
| director | Keith Gordon |
| editor | Jeff Wishengrad |
| genre | comedy-drama crime mystery |
| keywords | abduct business partner detective end musical number nightclub act nightclub singer nothing psoriasis psoriatic arthritis sing solve suffer traumatic childhood |
| musicBy | Basil Poledouris |
| producer | Bruce Davey Mel Gibson Steven Haft Steven Saxton |
| productionCompany | Icon Productions |
| publisher | Paramount Vantage |
| recordedAt | Los Angeles |
| theme | crime comedy film noir independent jukebox musical parallel universes |