The Singing Detective

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Plot: Dan Dark gives new meaning to the term "scars of childhood." A hack writer of detective stories, he has suffered from psoriatic arthropathy, a crippling disease of the skin and bones, from the time he...( read more read more... ) 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 "cave in the rocks" 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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  • SexiVixxEN
    SexiVixxEN
    Want To See
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    June 20, 2008
    Interested
  • RiderOfTheStorms
    RiderOfTheStorms
    3.0 Stars
    MCT:
    June 16, 2008
    weird movie but fuckin funny
  • Hoovedogg
    Hoovedogg
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    March 3, 2008
    not interested
  • puffchunk
    puffchunk
    2.5 Stars
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    October 23, 2007
    Um...Robert Jr is creepy, and has katie holmes do creepy things to his creepy body.
  • AgentLexi2132
    AgentLexi2132
    Want To See
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    August 17, 2007
    Will have to watch this one. Not necassarily good or bad. Will see. Want to watch!
  • unicornofbalinor
    unicornofbalinor
    4.5 Stars
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    October 26, 2008
    A very interesting dip into the tortured, sick mind of a mystery author. Downey Jr. was brilliant, as usual, giving Dark more bite than a bottle of Tabasco and more suppressed rage than a caged tiger. And that he is, caged in his own body - which is a nice contrast to the mesmorizingly charming, self-controlled detective-Dark. That being said, the direction is wonderfully weird and the songs completely inappropriate, adding to the mayhem. The flashbacks and digressions into the novel are treated in the same fasion, leading to the blurring of lines between pulp fiction and reality. The pacing is a bit off and I feel that some of the "detective" scenes aren't as revealing as they could be, but you can't help but forgive that for the stunning cast work, both individually and as an ensemble. Great work here!

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