The Singing Detective DVD 2003 Az éneklő Detektív / Directed by Keith Gordon / Starring: Robert Downey Jr., Robin Wright Penn, Jeremy Northam, Katie Holmes, Mel Gibson

UPC 5999544150805

REGION 2 PAL DVD  

MADE IN HUNGARY

AUDIO: English 5.1, Hungarian 5.1

SUBTITLES: HUNGARIAN, ENGLISH

Runtime: 104 minutes

English Summary

The Singing Detective is a 2003 American musical crime comedy film directed by Keith Gordon and loosely based on the BBC serial of the same name, a work by British writer Dennis Potter. It stars Robert Downey Jr. and features a supporting cast that includes Katie Holmes, Adrien Brody, Robin Wright Penn, Mel Gibson and Carla Gugino as well as a number of songs from the 1950s.

Plot

Suffering from the skin disease psoriasis and crippling psoriatic arthritis, detective novelist Dan Dark is in such pain in a hospital that he begins to delve into fantasy, resulting in several storylines told simultaneously:

A film noir based on Dark's novel, The Singing Detective, in which a nightclub singer/private eye, hired by Mark Binney, takes on a strange case involving prostitutes and two mysterious men. Nothing is ever solved from this, only a vague plot. Notably, all of the people in the film noir are played by people who are real people in Dark's life; for example, Dark's nurse plays a singer.
The present reality, in which Dark is tormented by incredible pain. Dark interacts with the various people around him, as the doctors and nurses attempt to help, but are dismissed by Dark's anger and bitterness towards everyone. His sense of reality then collapses into hallucinations as the people randomly sing choreographed musical numbers, such as "How Much Is That Doggie In The Window?" In the end, his reality is blended with the film noir and he is abducted by the two mysterious men, only to be shot by the titular "singing detective".
Dark's traumatic childhood in the past, which explains Dark's repulsion toward sexuality (Dark had watched his mother have sex with other men, including his father's business partner), and his own fiery temper.

Hungarian Summary

Dan Dark-ot, a jónevű krimi írót egy rémes bőrbetegség sújtja, aminek tünete, hogy összekeverednek az általa írt gyilkosságok, a múlt emlékei és a betegség okozta hallucinációk egy kedves zsaru történetében, aki amikor épp nem egy prosti gyilkosságának próbál utánajárni az 50-es évek Los Angelesében, egy jazz big band énekese. Mindez nagyon jól hangzana, ha nem fenyegetné a halálos csapda az út végén, amelyen már nem tudja megkülönböztetni a képzeletet a valóságtól, nem tudja, mi történik, mit tesz, és miről hiszi csak, hogy megtette...

Cast

Soundtrack

The soundtrack to The Singing Detective was released on October 14, 2003.