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Release Date: October 24th, 2003 (LA/NY); expands to other cities at later dates
MPAA Rating: R (for strong sexual content, language and some violence)
Distributor: Paramount Classics
Production Company: Haft Entertainment, Icon Productions , Mel Gibson's company.
Director: Keith Gordon. (A Midnight Clear, Mother Night, The Chocolate War, Waking the Dead). Before Gordon came aboard, Francois Girard (The Red Violin, 32 Short Films About Glenn Gould) had been signed on to direct.
Screenwriter: Dennis Potter (R.I.P. 1935-1994, of pancreatic cancer; Gorky Park, Pennies from Heaven, Brimstone and Treacle, Dreamchild, Track 29).
Based Upon: This is a feature film version of the 1986 BBC six-part TV mini-series of the same title, starring Michael Gambon directed by Jon Amiel (Entrapment, The Core), and also written by Dennis Potter.
Premise: As a Chicago novelist (Downey) lays, bedridden and feverish with an extreme case of psoriasis, 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 demons.
Filming: Production started on April 29th, 2002 in Los Angeles (subbing for Chicago), and wrapped in mid-June, 2002.
Genre: Based on a Book, Historical, Musical, TV Show, Thriller
Festival Profile: Sundance.
Official Site: Paramount Classics.
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CAST
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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
Carla Gugino.- Betty Dark/Hooker
Saul Rubinek.- Skin Specialist
Alfred Woodard.- Chief of Staff
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Mel Gibson plays Dark´s psychiatrist
"What am I gonna do to take it?. Look at all the people takes care of-it´s kept this town racing. And it keeps a lot of people fed."
"My mother once told me, if you visit someone, it´scustomary to bring something"
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