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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.

Production
Haft Entertainment (in association with); Icon Entertainment International;

Cast Names
Robert Downey Jr.; Robin Wright Penn; Mel Gibson; Jeremy Northam; Katie Holmes; Adrien Brody; Jon Polito; Carla Gugino; Saul Rubinek; Alfre Woodard; Amy Aquino; David Dorfman; Eddie Jones; Lily Knight; Clyde Kusatsu; Earl Poitier; Don Fischer; Andy Umberger; David Denman; Alec Puro; Renn Hawkey; Bryan Law; Carla Anderson; Sandahl Bergman; Rita Bland; Billy Bonsangue; Sergio Carbajal; Leonard Crofoot; Erin Crouch; Kiva Dawson; Richard Dorton; Brenda Mae Hamilton; Gordon Hart; Famisha La Pree; Suzi Lonergan; Eva Mikita; Tara Nicole Hughes; Regan Patno; Randi Pareira; Sandra Plazinic;

Box Office
USD 336,456

Release Date
2003-01-17 (Sundance Film Festival)
2003-10-24 (limited)

Genres
Comedy; Musical; Mystery; Drama;

MPAA Rating [?]
Rated R for strong sexual content, language and some violence.

Running Time
1 hr. 49 min.

Director
Keith Gordon

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