The Singing Detective

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Plot: Dan Dark gives new meaning to the term "scars of childhood." A hack writer of detective stories, he has suffered from psoriatic arthropathy, a crippling disease of the skin and bones, from the time he...( read more  ) was eight-years-old. 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. His fevered mind mingles real people with his fictional characters, and his past with his present. As his condition grows more desperate, he is dispatched to the charge of the eccentric psychiatrist Dr. Gibbons. Initially reluctant to confront his tortured past, Dark is gradually lured out from the "cave in the rocks" under which his spirit has crawled. Dark is visited in the hospital by his ex-wife, whom he fears his sleeping with a character from his past and conspiring to steal the screenplay he wrote years ago of his first novel, The Singing Detective. But nothing is exactly what it appears here. In his hallucinatory state, Dark re-imagines the plot of his novel, casting himself in the starring role of a gumshoe who doubles as a singer in a dance band.

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  MCT:

  May 4, 2008

  Basada en la teleserie de la BBC creada por Dennis Potter en 1986, quien también firma el guión, el personaje principal, el sexualmente reprimido Dan Dark (Downey Jr.), escritor de relatos policíacos, a simple vista parece ser un alter ego del joven actor neoyorkino, y a quien podemos ver ahora en Iron Man (2008) interpretando a Tony Stark.
  
  De entrada, The Singing Detective es una ?terapia psiquiátrica? a ritmo de baladas románticas y rock de los 1950, que narra en la forma de un atípico musical la rehabilitación por la que tendrá que pasar Dark, usando la freudiana técnica de ir hacia atrás en el recuerdo de sus propias vivencias, las cuales plasmó inconscientemente en su más reciente novela, The Singing Detective.
  
  La película tiene unos buenos números musicales, bien ejecutados y montados, y los actores muestran un gran desempeño intentando bailar y cantar. Sin embargo, no será la parte musical por la que el filme valga, sino por la eficaz mezcla de géneros entre el film-noir y el musical, la impecable factura visual y pulidísima fotografía de Tom Richmond, el diseño de producción de Patricia Norris y la solvencia de Gordon para dirigir a todo su reparto, empezando por la buena actuación de Robert Downey Jr., acompañado por Robin Wright Penn, Katie Holmes, Adrien Brody y Jeremy Northam.
  Más en http://pantallanueve.blogspot.com

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  MCT:

  April 30, 2008

  Yes, it is a poor musical if you assume it's just a musical. It's not; it's an outstading movie that goes inside the character's mind. It's bizarre, strange and weird. It's very, very good!

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  MCT:

  March 24, 2008

  A pretty bizzare ensemble piece based on the cult television series. One of the first comeback films for Robert Downey Jr backed by Mel Gibson. Worth multiple watches to catch the various subplots but might be just for the die hards fans.

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  MCT:

  March 14, 2008

  People say the original is better, I would know, but the original doesn't have Robert Downey Jr in it. He is amazing in this film (not really a big surprise there). I watched it just for him, and wasn't sure I would even like it. It is the best five dollars I have spent. It is a fun movie and if you are a RDJ fan it is a must see.

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  MCT:

  February 14, 2008

  Very strange. I can't recommend this to anyone because it will take a special kind of person to appreciate this movie. I am not one of thsoe special kinds of people.

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  Adrien Brody
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  Alfre Woodard
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  Carla Gugino
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  Jeremy Northam
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• Rated: (R)
• Directed by: Keith Gordon
• Genres: Drama, Comedy, Musical & Performing Arts
• Released: October 24, 2003
• DVD Released: March 23, 2004

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