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The singing detective - Robert Downey Junior, Robin Wright Penn, Mel Gibson, Keith Gordon

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Movie propaganda

When it comes to murder, seduction, betrayal... he wrote the book. Now he's living it.

The singing detective tells the story of crime novelist Dan Dark (Robert Downey Junior) who, languishing in his hospital bed, occupies his time by mapping out a screenplay in his head about a cynical private investigator who doubles as a singer in a dance band. His lead character is slowly drawn into a web of intrigue during the murder investigation of a prostitute in 1950s Los Angeles.

Heavily medicated, the border between reality and fiction starts to blur in Dark's mind. The plot is woven together with his own painful childhood memories, and soon he is living in a fevered film-noir hell constructed by his own twisted psyche, where everyone is his enemy and no-one can be trusted.