The Singing Detective

Year			2003
Genre			Drama, comedy, mystery, musical
Parents			Violence, offensive language, sexual content
Length			1:49
Director			Keith Gordon
Writer			Dennis Potter
Studio			Paramount Pictures
Starring			Robert Downey Jr. Mel Gibson Jrobin Wright Penn Eremy Northam Katie Holmes Adrien Brody Show more... Robert Downey Jr. Mel Gibson Jrobin Wright Penn Eremy Northam Katie Holmes Adrien Brody Jon Polito Carla Gugino Saul Rubinek Alfre Woodard Amy Aquino David Dorfman Eddie Jones

Dan Dark, an unsuccessful and bedridden novelist with a crippling disease, begins to mentally rewrite one of his novels, "The Singing Detective," with himself in the leading role. He drifts off into a fantasy world set in 1945 with spies, criminals and '40s music. Under the care of the eccentric Dr. Gibbon--who slowly aids the despairing Dark to use his imagination and its creations as a bridge into himself--the mental voyage ends up becoming the key to conquering his illness.