Movie Profile
The Singing Detective
Summary: A Chicago novelist (Robert Downey Jnr) lays bedridden in hospital, feverish with an extreme case of psoriasis, trying to deliriously figure out who he is and how he got to this terrible place in his life. In a hallucinatory state, he reworks the story of his first novel in his mind, becoming the title character who's on pursuit of Nazis in the 1940's. But the battle he's actually waging, of course, is with his own inner demons
Release Date: December 19, 2003
Rating: R
Genre: Comedy, Mystery
Duration: 1hr 49mins
Actors:
Robert Downey Jr.
Robin Wright Penn
Director:
Keith Gordon
Support Actor:
Synopsis: Based on a 1986 BBC six-part TV mini-series, a Chicago novelist (Robert Downey Jnr) lays bedridden and feverish with an extreme case of psoriasis. 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. In a hallucinatory state, he reworks the story of his first novel, The Singing Detective, in his mind, becoming the title character himself, who's on pursuit of Nazis in the 1940's. But the battle he's actually waging, of course, is with his own inner demons.
Release Date: December 19, 2003
Rating: R
Genre: Comedy, Mystery
Duration: 1hr 49mins
Actors:
Robert Downey Jr.
Robin Wright Penn
Director:
Keith Gordon
Support Actor:
Mel Gibson
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