The Singing Detective Movie Cast, Plot and Everything to Know

Plot

What's the story about?

Plot

Chicago residential novelist Dan Dark (Robert Downey Jr.), crippled by a horribly severe case of psioriasis, starts rewriting his 1950s noir novel "The Singing Detective" in his mind in a desperate effort to hang on to his sanity. Becoming the title character himself, he heads off in pursuit of Nazis in the 1940's who serve in place of his own personal demons. With the help of eccentric psychologist, Dr Gibbon (Gibson), who uses the book as a road map into the Dan Dark's psyche, he slowly liberates himself from the trauma of his childhood.

Drama

Top Cast

The lead cast starring in The Singing Detective.

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  Robert Downey Jr.

  The Avengers, Avengers: Doomsday

• 
  Robin Wright

  Here, Blade Runner 2049

• 
  Mel Gibson

  Hot Seat, Confidential Informant

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  Katie Holmes

  Miss Meadows, The Giver

• J
  Jeremy Northam

  Creation, The Invasion

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  Carla Gugino

  The Friend, Elektra Luxx

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  Adrien Brody

  The Brutalist, Asteroid City

• D
  David Dorfman

  The Ring Two

• K
  Kiva Dawson

Crew Behind the Film

The The Singing Detective behind-the-scenes crew and production team.

The film's director Keith Gordon last directed Untitled Keith Gordon Project.

Director

Keith Gordon

Screenwriters

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Production Details

What we know about the The Singing Detective movie production.

Production Updates for The Singing Detective

Dec 2004

Completed

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