The Singing Detective

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Stephen C @bob25009 May 8, 2026 The worldwide gross is $435,625.00, less than the budget of $8,000,000.00. See more

Valeria M @RT79226038 May 27, 2023 Un'ottima idea e un ottimo cast che non spiccano il volo. See more

steve d @RT35616104 Jan 31, 2023 I am embarrassed for everyone involved. See more

Oct 23, 2019 It is entertaining even if you don't always know what is happening. RDJ does look pretty disgusting in this but there is moments when he doesn't. Only thing i didn't enjoy was that they didn't actually have RDJ sing, I feel like they should have. See more

Jul 6, 2018 The Singing Detective was not at all what I expected. It is a film that is all about a writer who is suffering in the hospital and he hallucinates about multiple different stories, which all start converging around him. I’m never all that fond of movies that have no clearly defined rules or proper grounding in reality and this one falls into that a number of times. Occasionally the fantasy makes sense and it is a symptom of his real-life paranoia, but other times it is chaos to the point where I can’t connect the dots. The visions are very random and don’t contain a consistent theme because his mind wanders a lot. I like some of the therapy sequences with Mel Gibson, because that’s when reality seems to be the most important aspect. I also would have been fine if they wanted to spend more time in the world of his book with a detective and gangsters, but that never feels like a priority. The ending makes no sense to me, and I was left scratching my head. I’m sure there are some people who might enjoy this kind of mind-bending exploration of a writer’s damaged psyche, but I was underwhelmed. Also, it was very disappointing that The Singing Detective was a Lip-Syncing Detective through most of the film. See more

Simon T @MovieTart Apr 25, 2018 Tiresome and uninvolving adaptation by Dennis Potter of his original 1986 TV series. A twitchy and often inaudible Downey Jr lies in a hospital bed, deliriously imagining ghosts from his past as noir characters in a murder mystery. Only when he starts psychiatric sessions with Mel Gibson in a bald skullcap does his psoriasis start to heal and the pieces fall into place. But you'll have long since ceased caring. A vanity project par excellence. See more

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