He’s flown from New York to Los Angeles where he is meant to do some background research with a professional P.I. named Gay Perry (Val Kilmer), but things quickly get out of hand when he runs into his high school crush (Michele Monaghan), and gets embroiled in a case involving a dead body, old pulp fiction novels, and an older generation movie star.
Written and directed by Shane Black, the 2005 film stars Robert Downey Jr. as petty thief Harry Lockhart, who winds up accidentally auditioning for a movie about a private investigator while escaping the police following a heist gone wrong.