# The Singing Detective (2003)

> A hospitalized novelist's feverish imagination turns his noir fiction, musical fantasies, and painful reality into one unstable detective mystery.

Canonical page: https://ember.film/movie/18689

## Facts

- Runtime: 109 min
- Genres: Comedy, Music, Mystery, Crime
- Director: Keith Gordon
- Cast: Robert Downey Jr., Robin Wright, Mel Gibson, Jeremy Northam, Katie Holmes, Adrien Brody, Jon Polito, Carla Gugino
- TMDB rating: 5.1/10
- IMDb: https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0314676/

## Ember's analysis

- Pacing: measured
- Intensity: strong
- Complexity: layered
- Violence: mild
- Mood: feverish, surreal, darkly comic, cult movie night, surreal cinema session

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