Please contact me if you'd like to contribute to this page. We'd especially love to hear from cast/crew members who have worked on the film. =============== Images: All Images News Page: The Singing Detective News (Updated 12/12/03) Video: Movie Trailer: Real Media / Quicktime Press conference from the TIFF (09/08/03) view clip Segment (mostly RDJ) from Extra (09/09/03) view clip Preorder The Singing Detective DVD =============== Links: Official Website Icon Movies.au IMDb Greg's Preview - Yahoo! Movies Katie Holmes Message Board - Media Blvd Reviews: NY Daily News NY Times KHP (10/10/03) AICN (9/15/03) James Berardinelli Dark Horizons (9/12/03) Rotten Tomatoes Box Office Movies.com Screen Daily Film Stew AICN =============== Synopsis (from Paramount site) : The Singing Detective tells the story of a crime novelist Dan Dark (Robert Downey Jr.) who, languishing in his hospital bed, occupies his time by mapping out a screenplay in his head about a cynical private investigator who doubles as a singer in a dance band. His lead character is slowly drawn into a web of intrigue during the murder investigation of a prostitute in 1950s Los Angeles. Heavily medicated, the border between reality and fiction starts to blur in Dark's mind. The plot is woven together with his own painful childbood memories, and soon he is living in a fevered film-noir hell constructed by his own twisted psyche, where everyone is his enemy and no one can be trusted. Mel Gibson co-stars as the enigmatic Dr. Gibbon, the hospital psychiatrist who dares to take on Dark's tortured mind. The Singing Detective Cast (Info from IMDb and other sources) : Robert Downey Jr.: Dan Dark Robin Wright Penn: Nicola/Nina/Blonde Mel Gibson: Dr. Gibbon Jeremy Northam: Mark Binney Katie Holmes: Nurse Mills Adrien Brody: First Hood Jon Polito: Second Hood Carla Gugino: Betty Dark/Hooker Saul Rubinek: Skin Specialist Alfre Woodard: Chief of Staff Director: Keith Gordon Writing Credits Dennis Potter (screenplay) Produced By Bruce Davey: producer Mel Gibson: producer Steven Haft: producer Stan Wlodkowski: executive producer Production Companies Haft Entertainment Icon Entertainment International U.S. Distributors Airborne Productions Inc Paramount Classics Paramount Pictuers U.S. Release Date: 10/24/2003 (limited) Prior Release: 1/17/2003 at the 2003 Sundance Festival MPAA Rating: R Runtime: 109 minutes Production Start Date: 04/29/2002 Production Wrap Date: Mid-June 2002 Filming Locations: Chicago, Illinois, United States Los Angeles, California, United States