Directed by	Keith Gordon
Writing Credis	Dennis Potter
Cast	Robert Downey Jr. as Dan Dark Robin Wright Penn as Nicola/Nina/Blonde Mel Gibson as Dr. Gibbon Jeremy Northam as Mark Binney Katie Holmes as Nurse Mills Adrien Brody as First Hood Jon Polito as Second Hood Carla Gugino as Betty Dark/Hooker Alfre Woodard as Chief of Staff David Dorfman as Youg Dan
Genre	Conedy/Musical/Mistery/Drama
Budget	$6.000.000
Box Office USA	$337,174
Opening Weekend	$28,324 5 theaters, $5,664 average
Widest release	46 theathers
Release Date	24 October 2003
Filming Dates	May 2002 - 27 June 2002
Filming locations	Los Angeles, California, USA
Plot	Story is about Dan Dark (Robert Downey Jr) who is in the hospital suffering from a hideous skin disease that covers his entire body. Dan is a pulp fiction writer and while his pain ridden body lies in a hospital bed his hallucinations usually end up in song and dance routines or of himself as a Humphrey Bogart-like character. Dan is also paranoid that his wife Nicola (Robin Wright Penn) is cheating and plotting something against him but he also fantasizes about two hit men (Adrien Brody & Jon Polito) that are trying to kill him. Dan is sarcastic and downright insulting to everyone around him and it seems to stem from his memories of his mother Betty (Carla Gugino) so part of his therapy is to talk to the hospital psychiatrist Dr. Gibbon (Mel Gibson) who attempts to get at the core of his problems which may mean that his skin condition might be psychosomatic.
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