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

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.

a dark musical where the main character (Robert Downey Jr.) is a writer in a hospital for skin conditions who writes a dark world of seduction and murder in Katie's mind

The Singing Detective is a dark musical where the main character (Robert Downey Jr.) is a writer in a hospital for skin conditions who writes a dark world of seduction and murder in Katie's mind.

a postmodern concatenation of a pulp private eye story

The Singing Detective is a postmodern concatenation of a pulp private eye story; a ride through a debilitating skin illness; and the raw guilt of a childhood crime, filtered through the unstable mind of our protagonist, the writer Philip Marlowe, played by Michael Gambon.

mystery thriller

The award-winning The Singing Detective, acclaimed as Dennis Potter's masterpiece, is a dazzlingly entertaining and multi-layered mystery thriller with a distinguished cast.

an extravagant movie full of comedy, drama, thrills, eccentricities, and musical numbers

The Singing Detective is an extravagant movie full of comedy, drama, thrills, eccentricities, and musical numbers!

a comedy film released in 2003

The Singing Detective is a comedy film released in 2003.

the story of a writer of pulp-fiction novels, hospitalized for a horrible skin condition that has Michael Britten's entire body flaking and raw, and Michael Britten's mind slipping in and out of fever dreams

The Singing Detective is the story of a writer of pulp-fiction novels, hospitalized for a horrible skin condition that has Michael Britten's entire body flaking and raw, and Michael Britten's mind slipping in and out of fever dreams.

the story of a writer of pulp-fiction novels, , hospitalized for a horrible skin condition that has Michael Gambon's entire body flaking and raw

The Singing Detective is the story of a writer of pulp-fiction novels, hospitalized for a horrible skin condition that has Michael Gambon's entire body flaking and raw, and Michael Gambon's mind slipping in and out of fever dreams.

a skilfully crafted, multi-temporal narrative that constantly shifts between three layers: A burns victim hospital bed in the 1980s (reality); a childhood traumatic incident in London in the 1930s (memory); and a film-noir detective in the 1940s (fantasy)

The Singing Detective has a skilfully crafted, multi-temporal narrative that constantly shifts between three layers: A burns victim hospital bed in the 1980s (reality); a childhood traumatic incident in London in the 1930s (memory); and a film-noir detective in the 1940s (fantasy).

of crime novelist, Dan Dark,

The Singing Detective tells the story of crime novelist, Dan Dark, who, languishing in Dan Dark's hospital bed, occupies Dan Dark's time by mapping out a screenplay in Dan Dark's head about a cynical private investigator who doubles as a singer in a dance band.