The Singing Detective

IMDb link: 0314676
IMDb rating: 5.4 (9,200 votes)
Genres: Comedy, Crime, Mystery, Musical
Director: Robin Wright, Mel Gibson, Keith Gordon
Cast: Robert Downey Jr., Jeremy Northam and others

Release date: 14 Nov 2003
Release year: 2003
Runtime: 109 minutes
Country: United States
Keywords: detective, writer, detective novel, fantasy sequence, hallucination, sadomasochism, using others, parody comedy, extramarital affair, infidelity

Plot:

While hospitalized with an extreme case of psoriasis, novelist Dan Dark reworks his first book in his head. Feverish, paranoid and prone to musical outbreaks, he confuses himself with the his protagonist, a detective investigating the murder of a prostitute in 1950s Los Angeles.

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