# The Singing Detective (2003)

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**Runtime**: 109 min
**Genres**: Comedy, Music, Mystery, Crime
**Directed by**: Keith Gordon
**Written by**: Dennis Potter
**Starring**: Robert Downey Jr., Robin Wright, Mel Gibson, Jeremy Northam, Katie Holmes, Adrien Brody

> *When it comes to murder, seduction and betrayal, he wrote the book. Now he's living it.*

## Synopsis (in-house rewrite)

Penicillin bottles rattling like dice on his nightstand. A fever-sweat soaks the detective pulp pages pressed to his chest. The walls whisper lyrics only he can place.

Each fever dream twists Chandler into Chandler—a private eye who smells of menthol and betrayal. Through the haze the pages bleed into reality.

A mid-career valentine to pulp fatalism, tricked out in Robert Altman’s jazzy pajamas.

**Mood tags**: mindfuck, paranoid, playful, surreal

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