While fleeing from the cops, small time hood Harry Lockhart stumbles into an acting audition and does so well he gets sent to Hollywood. While there, Harry pursues a girl he loved in high school and gets caught up in a twisted murder mystery. His only chance of getting out alive is a gay private detective named Gay Perry, who also works as a consultant for movies and has been hired to tutor Harry in portraying a private eye.

Based, in part, on the novel: Bodies are where you find them / by Brett Halliday. DVD release of the 2005 motion picture. Special features include: gag reel; commentary with Val Kilmer, Robert Downey Jr., and Shane Black; theatrical trailer.