Let Go, Kitty | The Singing Detective

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Young Dan Dark (David Dorfman) witnesses his mother, Betty Dark (Carla Gugino), cheat on his father with his business partner, Mark Binney (Jeremy Northam).

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Director Keith Gordon (Mother Night, A Midnight Clear) adapts the 1986 BBC drama, The Singing Detective, into an American feature film. Robert Downey Jr. returns to the big screen for the first time since Wonder Boys in 2000, as Dan Dark, an author who is hospitalized with severe psoriasis. As he lies in bed, Dark has a hallucination that he is a World War II private soldier caught up in a bizarre web of mystery, intrigue, and musical performances. Written by the late Dennis Potter (Pennies From Heaven, Gorky Park) and starring Mel Gibson, Robin Wright Penn, Katie Holmes,