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Chinatown

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Chinatown
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R,2hrs 10min
Genres:
Drama,Action
Released:
January 1, 1974
Director:
Roman Polanski
Distributor:
Paramount
Starring:
Jack Nicholson, Faye Dunaway, John Huston  ...more
Exclusive DVD Extra: "The Biggest Secret"
Synopsis: "You may think you know what you're dealing with, but believe me, you don't," warns water baron Noah Cross (John Huston), when smooth cop-turned-private eye J.J. "Jake" Gittes (Jack Nicholson) starts nosing around Cross's water diversion scheme. That proves to be the ominous lesson of Chinatown, Roman Polanski's critically lauded 1974 revision of 1940s film noir detective movies. In 1930s Los Angeles, "matrimonial work" specialist Gittes is hired by Evelyn Mulwray (Faye Dunaway) to tail her husband, ... Full Synopsis
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Mark Deming, AMG Review
By 1974, a lingering national malaise spawned by the killing of John F. Kennedy and fed by the national debate over the Vietnam War, the continued wave of political assassinations, and the sudden rise and slow collapse of the counterculture movement had finally come to a head with the revelations of the Watergate scandal. Chinatown, a glossy variant on the hard-boiled film noir detective pictures of ... Full Review
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Jack Nicholson
J.J. Gittes
Faye Dunaway
Evelyn Mulwray
John Huston
Noah Cross
Perry Lopez
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