O n the face of it, the news that Dennis Potter's masterpiece The Singing Detective will not be repeated to mark its 25th anniversary because the BBC is unwilling to stump up what amounts to less. The Singing Detective meshes the finest bits of Glee and Smash with the edgy darkness of Dexter and Breaking Bad, and features a wizened Tony Soprano-style figure at its core.
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. It stars Robert Downey Jr. And features a supporting cast that includes Katie Holmes, Adrien Brody, Robin Wright Penn, Mel Gibson and Carla Gugino as well as. With Michael Gambon, Patrick Malahide, Joanne Whalley, David Ryall. Tormented and bedridden by a debilitating disease, a mystery writer relives his detective stories through his imagination and hallucinations.
In Dennis Potter's masterwork miniseries, novelist Philip Marlow (Michael Gambon) lies in a hospital bed with a crippling skin condition, mentally reworking a pulp detective story while thinking back to his troubled childhood in wartime England. As the detective story (whose protagonist is also called Philip Marlow) and real-life story unfold, characters from Marlow's inner and outer worlds begin to mingle, as the figures from his past become conflated with the characters they inspired, as well as with people from Marlow's present life. Mixing fact and fiction, past and present, dream and waking life in an inspired modernist welter — along with 1940s' musical production numbers—this daring dramatization of the subconscious puts Ally McBeal's dancing baby to shame.
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