Dennis Potter

The Singing Detective -- Languishing in a hospital room with an immobilizing condition, Dark has lost himself in the fictional world of his alter ego, a hardboiled detective and dance-band singer living in 1950s Los Angeles.

Track 29 -- A dissatisfied woman encounters a mysterious stranger who may be her long-lost son in this psychological, darkly comic drama from George Harrison's Handmade Films.

The Singing Detective tells the story of crime novelist Dan Dark (Robert Downey Jr.) who, languishing in his hospital bed, occupies his time by mapping out a screenplay in his head about a cynical private investigator who doubles as a singer in a dance band. His lead character is slowly drawn into a web of intrigue during the murder investigation of prostitute in 1950s Los Angeles. Heavily medicated, the border between reality and fiction starts to blur in Dark's mind. The plot is woven together with his own painful memories, and soon he is living in a fevered film-noir hell constructed by his own twisted psyche, where everyone is his enemy and no one can be trusted. Mel Gibson co-stars as the enigmatic Dr. Gibbon, the hospital psychiatrist who dares to take on Dark's tortured mind.

Languishing in a hospital room with an immobilizing condition, Dark has lost himself in the fictional world of his alter ego, a hardboiled detective and dance-band singer living in 1950s Los Angeles.

Languishing in a hospital room with an immobilizing condition, Dark has lost himself in the fictional world of his alter ego, a hardboiled detective and dance-band singer living in 1950s Los Angeles.

While hospitalized with severe skin condition, novelist Daniel Dark occupies himself with mapping out plots in his head. He loses himself in the fictional world of his alter ego, a hardboiled detective and dance-band singer living in 1950's Los Angeles.

A dissatisfied woman encounters a mysterious stranger who may be her long-lost son in this psychological, darkly comic drama from George Harrison's Handmade Films.

A dissatisfied woman encounters a mysterious stranger who may be her long-lost son in this psychological, darkly comic drama from George Harrison's Handmade Films.

George Harrison’s Handmade Films presents TRACK 29, starring Gary Oldman (Tinker Taylor Soldier Spy, Sid and Nancy), Christopher Lloyd (Back to the Future, Taxi), and Theresa Russell (Wild Things). Distraught and dreamy Linda Henry (Russell) is unhappy with her sexless, childless marriage to surgeon Henry Henry (Lloyd). Desperate for a diversion, she is captivated when Martin (Oldman) suddenly drops in on Linda claiming to be the child she gave up for adoption after a teenage pregnancy. They spend time together trying to find a bond, but strange behaviors and bizarre events indicate that things aren’t as they seem. Is Martin really the son she gave up for adoption at birth or just figment of her imagination?

Track 29 -- A doctor's wife tires of his obsession with model trains, and spends her days wondering about the son she gave up for adoption at birth.

All-star musical follows Steve Martin as a womanizing sheet-music salesman who's married to hapless Jessica Harper but carries on an affair with a schoolteacher.

All-star musical follows Steve Martin as a womanizing sheet-music salesman who's married to hapless Jessica Harper but carries on an affair with a schoolteacher.