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Dominican Rep. The Singing Detective
1,761
Film noir. Musical. Comedy. Mystery
Based on Dennis Potter's stunningly brilliant 1986 BBC mini-series of the same name, Gordon's version finds the film's troubled hero transplanted to 1950s America, not post-WWII London. Dan Dark (Robert Downey Jr.) is a pulp novelist in the thralls of a crippling skin disease that has rendered him delusional and immobile. Bitter, angry, and at the end of his rope, Dan manages to offend everyone he encounters. As he lies in bed, scenes ... [+]
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"The movie does not propose to be a comedy, a musical, a film noir story or a medical account. It proposes to be a subjective view of suffering, and the ways this character tries to cope with it." | POS |
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"At once daring and hackneyed, absorbing and off-putting, a triumph of one sort and, more lastingly, a failure of another" | NEU |
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"Works not primarily because it's a strange and original brew, but because it accomplishes its goals without seeming to force things" | POS |
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"It is worth catching The Singing Detective to see the brilliant Robert Downey Jr. in another extraordinary performance" | POS |
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"Admiring 'The Singing Detective' is easy, and so is appreciating the originality of the story's conceit, the artistry of the actors and the directorial intelligence of Keith Gordon. But loving it would take an act of will" | NEU |
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