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	Mel Gibson: The Singing Detective - Movie
		When "The Singing Detective" was first produced as a TV mini series in 1986, it had a cumulative running time of well over 400 minutes.
		"The Singing Detective" tells the surrealistic tale of a writer of detective fictions who is suffering from a horrifically painful and disfiguring skin disease.
		The irony is that, for all the razzle dazzle of its form and style, the film is at its most intriguing in its quieter, subtler moments when the embittered hospital patient is forced to confront the demons of his own tormented psyche.
	www.superiorpics.com /mel_gibson/movie/2003_the_singing_detective.html (1468 words)

	MCN Movie Review: The Singing Detective
		Had the film version of The Singing Detective simply kept that focus, one could have forgiven its stylistic lapses, economy of means and myriad dangling plot points.
		What is more problematic is condensing the yarn into a conventional movie length and trading the intimacy of a small screen for a bigger canvas.
		Though he can't put pen to paper, he's able to mentally fashion his novel The Singing Detective as a movie script and fight the demons of his past by turning them into literary figures that the title character - his alter ego - can dispatch with a gat or a lyric.
	www.moviecitynews.com /reviews/singing_detective.html (696 words)

	JAKEOPOLIS.com - Movie Reviews, Editorials, And More From The Big Guy (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-08)
		The characters hit all the rights notes in Paramount Classic’s new comedy-musical the Singing Detective, but the film’s tempo is a little too allegro for its own good.
		The movie is an adaptation of a 1986 British TV mini-series about author Dan Dark (Robert Downey Jr.) who writes 1950s pulp mysteries that begin to invade his reality.
		As Dark himself says, “Life is all clues and no solutions.” It’s an apt description of the Singing Detective, a movie that sings all its notes impeccably in the right key, but forgets that dynamics and pacing are the tools that give music and film meaning.
	www.jakeopolis.com /singingdetective.htm (676 words)

	The Singing Detective
		In its original incarnation, The Singing Detective was a six-part BBC series that was popular with both audiences and critics.
		In its new form, The Singing Detective, reworked and trimmed down to under two hours is a curiously bad movie.
		As the Singing Detective, he speaks with one of those annoying gumshoe accents and lip-syncs his way through some old standards.
	www.haro-online.com /movies/singing_detective.html (502 words)

	Movie Photos: The Singing Detective (via CobWeb/3.1 planetlab1.cs.wisc.edu) (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-08)
		Adrien Brody in The Singing Detective - 2003
		In this movie within a movie, a pockmark-free Dan is the star of his own tale.
		The problem with the movie, which is as dead as a doornail between flashes of absolute brilliance, can be laid solely at the foot of director Keith Gordon (WAKING THE DEAD), who doesn't have a clue as to what he's doing.
	www.allmoviephoto.com.cob-web.org:8888 /photo/2003_The_Singing_Detective_photo.html (691 words)

	Jane Potter's Introduction to the movie of The Singing Detective
		This introduction was given by Jane when the 2003 movie version of The Singing Detective was screened at a pre-launch event for the Voices in the Forest festival, at Coleford Cinema Third Screen.
		With dad's unique fusion of fantasy and reality he broke the rules and limits of television drama, always pushing harder and harder - indeed the viewer is often left in doubt as to the status of what he had seen or where it came from.
		For many The Singing Detective was the star in his crown, where everything came together in a glittering jewel of work that stands the test of time.
	www.yorksj.ac.uk /potter/TSD_movie_Jane.htm (531 words)

	MMI Movie Review: The Singing Detective - The Movie
		The new adaptation of ‘the Singing Detective’ hits its mark and engages you in the same surrealistic dream like way that the BBC series did when it aired in the eighties.
		But again, you don’t miss it because ‘the Singing Detective’ movie keeps pulling you into the author’s delirious recovery cycle that you are enthralled as the shortened plot unfolds.
		So while the new ‘Singing Detective’ seems to be playing in limited distribution now, I hope that it reaches and infects new fans who can easily hunt down and watch the original six episodes finally available on DVD.
	www.shoestring.org /mmi_revs/singingdetectiv-pp-161592518.html (456 words)

	Dennis Potter's The Singing Detective
		He is the author of several detective novels, all of which, he would be quick to remind us, are out of print.
		Potter wrote several dramas for television, but The Singing Detective (which he had to write with a pen strapped to his hand) was the pinnacle of his long career.
		The Singing Detective is a modern pilgrim’s progress in which three narratives – Marlow’s hospital experiences, the pulp fiction that he is half-composing and half-hallucinating, and the boyhood memories that percolate into both his reality and his fiction – are braided together.
	www.culturevulture.net /Television/SingingDetective.htm (954 words)

	The Singing Detective (film) - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		The Singing Detective was a 2003 film based on the BBC miniseries of the same name, a work by Dennis Potter.
		Suffering from the skin disease psoriasis and a crippling arthritis, detective novelist Dan Dark is in such pain in a hospital that he begins to delve into fantasy, resulting in several story-lines at once, most :
		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.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/The_Singing_Detective_(movie) (434 words)

	The Singing Detective Movie Review (Robert Downey Jr., Robin Wright Penn) By Liam Cullin Empire Movies
		He weaves in and out of sanity, in and out of his real life and his detective alter ego and in and out of musical numbers featuring the medical staff that is attending to him.
		There is a reason he's the "singing" detective after all.
		It's not for everyone, but if you're into detective movies and character pieces (and even a little into musicals), this movie is for you.
	www.empiremovies.com /reviews/liam/the_singing_detective.shtml (617 words)

	The Singing Detective Movie Review - MovieWeb
		At its heart, The Singing Detective is yet another movie about self-re-discovery shabbily disguised as unconventional, stylistic satire - a film, in a sense, that we just didn't need and wasn't, in the first place, necessary.
		Further, Downey's moments as the Singing Detective himself make one anxious to see the actor take on a similar role elsewhere, but in a film more dedicated the noir genre.
		Unfortunately, however, for as visual and stylistic as The Singing Detective aspires to be, it is, quite honestly, a rather simple character study, and its moments of greatest success are the smaller, more intimate points that require little more than two people and a chair.
	www.movieweb.com /movies/film/88/288/review179.php (604 words)

	THE SINGING DETECTIVE Movie Review
		THE SINGING DETECTIVE centres on novelist Dan Dark (Robert Downey Jr.) who, while hospitalised with an extreme case of psoriasis, reworks his first book in his head.
		‘The Singing Detective’ is a very hard movie to describe if you haven’t seen the 1986 tv series of the same name.
		The movie opens with a close-up of Dan Dark in hospital — a close up that is very unnerving if you have never seen a classic, horrific case of psoriasis — a skin condition where the sufferer is literally covered with scaly, peeling, dry skin.
	www.searchsa.com.au /Review/Movie_Review.asp?id=51 (425 words)

	The Singing Detective
		While great brilliance was invested in The Singing Detective, it’s stumbling at the finish line harms the overall success of the film.
		The Singing Detective, probably my favorite film of Gordon's career, will stand the test of time as an enormously inventive, moving and provocative experiment.
		The new Singing Detective mirrors Potter's growth as well as his originality, and moving from television to silver screen feels like a rewarding round trip.
	www.rottentomatoes.com /m/singing_detective (1038 words)

	The Singing Detective (2003) Movie Review - RopeofSilicon.com
		Singing Detective, The is a Paramount Classics release directed by Keith Gordon and was released on November 7, 2003.
		Dark is visited in the hospital by his ex-wife (Robin Wright Penn), 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.
		The Singing Detective smashes together fl comedy, pulp fiction, naturalistic drama, expressionist film noir and lip-synched 1950’s rock-n-roll musical numbers in a totally original and multi-leveled exploration of a wounded soul as he heals and reassembles the jumbled pieces of his life.
	www.ropeofsilicon.com /review.php?id=330 (621 words)

	2003 Sundance Fest: Boxoffice Magazine Coverage (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-08)
		Part detective story, part rock-and-roll musical, part character study, the surreal "Singing Detective" doesn't so much blend the boundaries of genre as shatter them.
		Embroiled in a murder mystery that involves the murder of a whore with a connection to an atomic scientist, he's on the lam from a couple of goons (hilariously over-the-top Jon Polito and Adrien Brody).
		Cinematically, "The Singing Detective" is highly stylized, utilizing expressionist noir lighting for the sexually charged fantasy sequences and crafting a bright, sterile environment in the hospital.
	www.boxoffice.com /sundance/2003/singing_detective.html (566 words)

	RA: Resident Advisor - The Singing Detective - Movie Review (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-08)
		A strange, yet enticing mixture of reality and fantasy, an author's mind trapped in the fantasy of a detective novel he'd written, his pained and badly scarred body trapped in the reality of a hospital bed.
		Maybe this was what Potter was thinking of when he adapted The Singing Detective into a movie with a distinctly American audience in mind.
		And what better man to replicate the role of Michael Gambon's detective but Robert Downey Jr., who's proven in past years that he doesn't need to perform to be a strung out character, he's quite adept at doing it in real life.
	www.residentadvisor.net /review_view.asp?id=2125 (448 words)

	'The Singing Detective' - MOVIE REVIEW - Los Angeles Times - calendarlive.com (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-08)
		Even though Downey and Gibson rise to their challenging roles and have solid support, this "Singing Detective" is too flat and academic to come alive.
		A none-too-successful novelist, he is in the throes of an attack of psoriasis so severe that no area of his body is free of scaliness and sores, leaving him a virtual paralytic confined to a hospital bed.
		Since there's no evidence that Dark intended his "Singing Detective" novel to be pastiche or satire, he comes across as a decidedly less than inspired writer.
	www.calendarlive.com /movies/reviews/cl-et-thomas24oct24,2,1423488.story (497 words)

	The Singing Detective
		Forced inward, Dark relives a hardboiled detective novel he's written, recast with himself as the P.I.; endures sessions with a persistent therapist, Dr. Gibbon (Mel Gibson); and begins to draw together the strings of his past with the frayed ends of his present.
		The Singing Detective lacks spontaneity for all its flights of fancy and discovery for all its revelations and grotesqueries.
		As an Oedipal detective story, complete with a gorgeous mother/whore/corpse (Carla Gugino) and gorgeous wife/whore/corpse (Robin Wright Penn), it compels as it does through any number of intellectual avenues and close dissections, and yet a sense of real danger and that attendant feeling of genuine relief and revelation seems to be absent.
	www.filmfreakcentral.net /screenreviews/singingdetective.htm (419 words)

	The Singing Detective - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		The Singing Detective was a critically acclaimed BBC television serial, written by Dennis Potter and starring Michael Gambon.
		Originally, the title of the series was "Smoke Rings," and the Singing Detective noir thriller was to be dropped after the first episode because Potter felt it would not hold the audience's attention.
		The Singing Detective ranked as number 20 on the British Film Institute's list of the 100 Greatest British Television Programmes, voted by industry professionals in 2000.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/The_Singing_Detective (1294 words)

	Community Forum - New Movie: The Singing Detective
		There was another movie, the name of it escapes me at the moment, but they found NPF material in the man's mailbox and reacted like children over it.
		Three Psoriasis Foundation staff members attended a screening of the movie at the Sundance Film Festival and met with the director, Keith Gordon, to evaluate the portrayal of these diseases the possible public awareness potential of the film.
		A full write-up on "The Singing Detective" will appear in the January/February member magazine, and more will be posted on the Psoriasis Foundation Web site in the near future.
	www.psoriasis.org /forum/showthread.php?t=2985 (717 words)

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		Ironically, "The Singing Detective" probably would have been better without the awkwardly integrated songs that signal frequent shifts into fantasy for the picture's acrimonious anti-hero -- a second-rate pulp novelist hospitalized with literally crippling, full-body psoriasis that serves as a metaphor for his rampaging inner demons.
		That said, if you grin and bear the songs as wacky intermissions from the film's deeper themes, the balance of "The Singing Detective" is an almost hypnotic excursion into the fevered mind and angry heart that hide a wounded soul.
		A tongue-in-cheek and intentionally two-dimensional amalgam of Bogart, Cagney, Robinson and Mitchum, he's the kind of guy who answers the question "How did you know there was a dame?" by saying "There's always a dame" out of the corner of his mouth while lighting a cigarette.
	www.splicedonline.com /03reviews/singingdick.html (607 words)

	The Singing Detective Movie Review - The Singing Detective Movie Trailer - The Boston Globe
		Miniseries such as ''Pennies From Heaven'' (1978), ''The Singing Detective'' (1986), and ''Blackeyes'' (1989) gain strength from their length and from the absurdist flashbacks, fantasies, and musical numbers that assail their heroes.
		Filmmakers who boil these projects down to standard movie size do so at their peril, as Mike Nichols found out with the 1981 Steve Martin Hollywoodization of ''Pennies'' and as Keith Gordon discovers with the woefully small version of ''Detective'' that opens in area theaters today.
		The original six-part BBC ''Singing Detective'' remains one of the signal achievements in the history of television -- really -- and its release on DVD this past spring puts it easily within reach of the curious.
	www.boston.com /movies/display?display=movie&id=3350 (627 words)

	Reeling: the Movie Review Show's review of The Singing Detective
		This is one of the problems I had with “The Singing Detective.” There is too much going on to allow it to anchor firmly anywhere.
		The main story, about Dan Dark’s battle with his long-time skin disease is interrupted frequently with his hallucinations, reminiscences of his troubled childhood and imagining himself as a tough private dick on a murder case.
		I’m not familiar with the original BBC series and the filmmakers stress that Dennis Potter claimed that his movie adaptation is a fully realized effort, not just a truncation of the TV shows.
	www.reelingreviews.com /thesingingdetective.htm (640 words)

	The Singing Detective - Zap2it.com - Movie Reviews, Theaters, Trailers, Times and More
		Feverish, paranoid and prone to musical outbreaks, he confuses himself with the his protagonist, a detective hot on the trail of some murderers.
		The imagined plot is woven together with Dark's own 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 -- even himself.
		"The Singing Detective" is a title best known to audiences in Britain and the United States as the classic six-part BBC series written by Dennis Potter starring Michael Gambon.
	movies.zap2it.com /movies/details/1,1295,36404,00.html (130 words)

	The Singing Detective - Movie Review
		In fact, to say it's a bit of a rarity in the movie world would be akin to saying lead-player Robert Downey Jr.
		So I really wish I could say 'The Singing Detective' is a success - but I'd be a filthy no-good liar, so I won't.
		Alternatives: The Singing Detective (Potter's original mini-series is available on DVD as a 3-disc box-set).
	www.movie-gazette.com /cinereviews/910 (532 words)

	Robin Wright Penn: The Singing Detective - Movie
		Robin Wright Penn Movie: The Singing Detective (2003)
		Dark goes into his own mind where he remembers things about his childhood and his book, The Singing Detective comes to life, even the characters appear in front of him.
		The story kinda is dull at first but by the end where the man starts to become himself again and he's faced with his inner demons the movie is irresistable.
	www.superiorpics.com /robin_wright_penn/movie/2003_the_singing_detective.html (1507 words)

	VH1.com : Movies : The Singing Detective : Review
		Sometimes impenetrable, often heartbreaking, The Singing Detective (1986) was one of the finest programs ever produced for television (the six-hour BBC miniseries was released theatrically in the United States).
		The blending of these preoccupations leads to characters from his book wandering into his ward, and events from his novel ending up as memories from his past (or is the other way around?).
		Like most of Potter's work, The Singing Detective is semi-autobiographical (it is also a loose reworking of his first novel, 1973's Hide and Seek).
	www.vh1.com /movies/movie/93376/review.jhtml (264 words)

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