DIRECTED BY: Keith Gordon

WRITTEN BY: Dennis Potter

MEL GIBSON AS: Dr. Gibbon

GENRE: Comedy, Musical, Mystery, Drama

TAGLINES:

- When it comes to murder, seduction and betrayal he wrote the book. Now he’s living it!

PLOT SUMMARY:

While hospitalized with an extreme case of psoriasis, novelist Dan Dark reworks his first book in his head. Feverish, paranoid and prone to musical outbreaks, he confuses himself with the his protagonist, a detective investigating the murder of a prostitute in 1950s Los Angeles. -IMDB

RELEASE DATES:

2003 January 17 (United States – Sundance Film Festival)
2003 May 15 (France – Cannes Film Festival)
2003 September 8 (Toronto Film Festival)
2003 October 24 (United States)
2003 November 14 (United Kingdom)
2003 November 27 (Israel)
2003 December 12 (Spain_
2004 January 16 (Greece, Norway)
2004 January 22 (Sweden – Gothenburg Film Festival)
2004 February 27 (Sweden)
2004 April 15 (Hong Kong)
2004 April 27 (Finland – DVD)
2004 June 18 (Poland)
2004 July 8 (Australia)
2004 October 7 (New Zealand)
2004 October 13 (Argentina – DVD)
2004 December 8 (Hungary – DVD)
2004 December 16 (Germand – DVD)
2005 February 25 (Italy)

BOX OFFICE GROSS

United States: $337,174

BOX OFFICE GROSS

Los Angeles, California, USA

TRIVIA:

- While Dan Dark is in Binney’s office, he picks up a statue of a Maltese Falcon.

- At one point, David Cronenberg was in line to direct the film, with Al Pacino in the lead.

- Keith Gordon and Robert Downey Jr. previously worked together in the 1986 movie Back to School (1986). At the time, Keith Gordon was acting not directing.

- The opening song was chosen by director Keith Gordon because he liked it so much in John Carpenter’s Christine (1983), which he also starred in.

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