The Singing Detective (2003)

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R | 1 hr 49 mins | Drama, Musical, Mystery | Released: 10/24/2003 |Box Office Total: $0.3M

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Synopsis:

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 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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Full Cast & Crew

Theatrical Release
10/24/2003

Studio	Credit
Paramount Pictures	Studio
Director	Credit
Keith Gordon	Director
Cast	Credit
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
Amy Aquino	Nurse Nozhki
David Dorfman	Young Dan Dark
Eddie Jones	Moonglow Bartender
Lily Knight	Woman Pysiotherapist
Clyde Kusatsu	Visiting Japanese Doctor
Earl C Poitier	Orderly
Don Fischer	Intern
Andy Umberger	Mr Dark
David Denman	Soldier with Betty Dark
Alec Puro	Dark's Drummer
Renn Hawkey	Dark's Bass Player
Bryan Law	Dark's Guitar Player
Carla Anderson	Dancer
Sandahl Bergman	Dancer
Rita Bland	Dancer
Billy Bonsangue	Dancer
Sergio Carbajal	Dancer
Leonard Crofoot	Dancer
Erin Crouch	Dancer
Kiva Dawson	Dancer
Richard Dorton	Dancer
Brenda Hamilton	Dancer
Gordon Hart	Dancer
Famisha La Pree	Dancer
Suzie Lonergan	Dancer
Eva Mikita	Dancer
Tara Nicole	Dancer
Regan Patno	Dancer
Randi Pareira	Dancer
Sandra Plazinic	Dancer
Sheldon Robins	Dancer
DeAnna Steele	Dancer
Tasha Tae	Dancer
Elle Taylor	Dancer
Jessica Vallot	Dancer
Dee Dee Weathers	Dancer
Spice Williams	Dancer
Darrel Wright	Dancer
Dani Wylie	Dancer
Production Credits	Credit
Stanley J Wlodkowski	Executive Producer
Robert Potter	Co-Producer
Mel Gibson	Producer
Kevin Lake	Associate Producer
Bruce Davey	Producer
Jane Potter	Co-Producer
Steven Haft	Producer
Sarah Potter	Co-Producer
Production Companies	Credit
Icon Entertainment International	Production Company
Haft Entertainment	Production Company
Distribution Companies	Credit
Paramount Vantage	Domestic Distribution Rights
Paramount Studios Home Video	Domestic Video Distributor
Writer	Credit
Dennis Potter	Screenplay
Dennis Potter	Source Material
Accounting	Credit
Penny A Gillman	Accountant
Paul Giorgi	Assistant Accountant - First Assistant Accountant
Steven Butensky	Production Accountant
Art Department	Credit
Christopher J Pyles	Dresser
Donna Ekins	Art Department Coordinator - Set Decorating Coordinator
Maureen Osborne	Set Dresser
Richard Girod	Painter - Paint Foreman
Patricia Norris	Production Designer
Jan Bergstrom	Set Decorator
Michael P Casey	Leadman
Larry Boyd	Set Dresser
Jim Wardell	Set Dresser
Jimmy Simeone	Set Dresser
Curtis Allen	Set Dresser
Brenner Hugh Harris	Set Dresser
Paul Detlefson	Set Dresser
Casting	Credit
Denise Chamian	Casting
Dena Berman	Casting Associate
Jennifer Bender	Extras Casting
Barbara Harris	Voice Casting
Craft Services	Credit
Shawn Stevens	Craft Service
Film Camera	Credit
Bob Fredrickson	Color Timer
Dan Kneece	Steadicam Operator
Tom Richmond	Director of Photography
Geb Byers	Assistant Camera - First Assistant Camera
Robert P Bennett	Camera Operator
Dan Jones	Loader
Lorey Sebastian	Photography - Still Photographer
David Kneece	Steadicam Operator
Richard C Miller	Assistant Camera - First Assistant Camera
Eddie Avila	Assistant Camera - Second Assistant Camera
Sacha Riviere	Assistant Camera - Second Assistant Camera
Film Sales Financing	Credit
Icon Film Distribution (IFD)	Film Financier
Music	Credit
The Viscounts	Song Performer
Earle Hagen	Song
Ken Weiss	Music Supervisor
Michael Carey Schneider	Music Coordinator
Bobby Helms	Song Performer
Jimmy Duncan	Song
Bob Merrill	Song
Patti Page	Song Performer
Jack Rhodes	Song
Gene Vincent	Song Performer
John Madara	Song
Danny & The Juniors	Song Performer
The Chordettes	Song Performer
David White	Song
Artie Singer	Song
Tommy Edwards	Song Performer
Pat Ballard	Song
Johnny Ray	Song Performer
Chester G Dawes	Song
The Coasters	Song Performer
Big Joe Turner	Song Performer
Carl Sigman	Song
Johnny Bragg	Song
Eddie Cochran	Song Performer
Robert S Riley	Song
Conway Twitty	Song Performer
The Kalin Twins	Song Performer
Jerry Leiber	Song
Robert Downey Jr	Song Performer
Mike Stoller	Song
Gene Vincent	Song
Billy Davis Jr	Song
Charles Calhoun	Song
Lou Willie Turner	Song
Bob Cochran	Song
Eddie Cochran	Song
Conway Twitty	Song
Jack Nance	Song
Paul Evans	Song
Jack Reardon	Song
Bernice Bedwell	Song
Physical Effects	Credit
Jeff Habberstad	Stunt Coordinator
Christine Bauer	Stunts
Simone Boiseree	Stunts
Frankie Garbutt	Stunts
Michael Hilow	Stunts
Chris Howell	Stunts
Paul Sklar	Stunts
Eric Stabenau	Stunts
Clark Tucker	Stunts
Production Management	Credit
Will Jorgenson	Assistant Location Manager
Jane Goldsmith	Script Supervisor
Mary Kim	Production Supervisor
Rajeev Malhotra	Post-Production Supervisor
Andrew Blau	Production Coordinator
Eric Heffron	Assistant Director - First Assistant Director
Jeremy Alter	Location Manager
Stanley J Wlodkowski	Unit Production Manager
Traceigh Scottel	Assistant Production Coordinator
Carson Turner	Assistant Location Manager
Michael D Moore	Assistant Director - Second Assistant Director
David Reibel	Assistant Director - Second Second Assistant Director
Publicity	Credit
Michele Robertson	Film Publicist
Teri Kane	Film Publicist
Sound	Credit
Patti Tauscher	Foley Editor
Earl F Sampson	Boom Operator
Frank Rinella	Foley Recordist
Rocky Quiroz	Sound - Cable Person
John Nurr	Supervising Sound Editor
Chris Gridley	Assistant Sound Editor
Piotr Filipowski	Sound Editor
Margie O'Malley	Foley Artist
James LeBrecht	Sound Designer
Mark Berger	Rerecording Mixer
Frank Canonica	Sound Recordist - Machine Room Recordist
Richard Van Dyke	Sound Mixer
Marnie Moore	Foley Artist
Nathan Gunn	Assistant Sound Editor
Anna Geyer	Sound Recordist - Machine Room Recordist
Viet Tran	Sound - Transfer Room Operator
David Parker	Rerecording Mixer
James Willetts	Foley Recordist
Rick Kahn	Sound - Transfer Room Operator
Visual Effects	Credit
Brian Spie	Character Design - Lead Character Design
Atmadev Cornelius	Main Title Design
Helena Parker	Digital Effects Artist
Helena Parker	Digital Effects - Effects Designer
Arthur Pimentel	Effects Supervisor - Model Shop Supervisor
David Peterson	Special Effects Coordinator
Scott Blackwell	Special Effects Foreman
Mark Nieman	Special Effects Technician - Effects Technician
John Kim	Special Effects Technician - Effects Technician
Todd Tucker	Character Design
Mark Ritcheson	Digital Effects - Digital Effects Producer
Michael Peterson	Special Effects Technician - Effects Technician
Brian Vandorn	Special Effects Technician - Effects Technician
Sam Sainz	Special Effects Technician - Effects Technician
David Dupuis	Special Effects Technician - Effects Technician
Tom Killeen	Special Effects Technician - Effects Technician
Cory Czekaj	Special Effects Technician
Wardrobe Hair Makeup	Credit
Pamela Phillips	Makeup Artist
Steve Robinette	Hair Stylist
Patty York	Makeup Supervisor
Toni-Ann Walker	Hair - Hair Supervisor
Kelly Lindquist	Key Costumer
Mimi Maxmen	Assistant Costume Designer
Tom Dawson	Costume Supervisor
Linda Benevente-Notaro	Costumer - Specialty Costumer
Greg Cannom	Makeup Effects - Makeup Effects Creator
Patricia Norris	Costume Designer
Patricia Budz	Hair Stylist
Vera Mitchell	Hair - Hair Design
Claudia Hardy	Costumer - Specialty Costumer
Anne Winsor Hartley	Key Costumer
Keith Vanderlaan	Makeup Effects - Makeup Effects Creator
Consuelo Duran	Costumer - Specialty Costumer

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