Chinatown

Chinatown
7.9

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Directed by: Roman Polanski

Overview

Private eye Jake Gittes lives off of the murky moral climate of sunbaked, pre-World War II Southern California. Hired by a beautiful socialite to investigate her husband's extra-marital affair, Gittes is swept into a maelstrom of double dealings and deadly deceits, uncovering a web of personal and political scandals that come crashing together.

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Reviews (3)

  • John Chard (Rated: 9.5)

    He nose you know!

    Chinatown is directed by Roman Polanski and written by Robert Towne. It stars Jack Nicholson, Faye Dunaway, John Huston, Perry Lopez and John Hillerman. Music is by Jerry Goldsmith and cinematography by John A. Alonzo.

    Private investigator J.J. Gittes (Nicholson) is working o...

  • Filipe Manuel Neto (Rated: 10)

    Great.

    I can't say much about Roman Polanski because I feel I've seen too little of his work to make a more global analysis: I have only seen The Ninth Gate, The Pianist and, now, this film. It's not much… but the truth is that they are three films that I really liked, and about which I h...

  • CinemaSerf (Rated: 7)

    I think this might be my favourite role from Faye Dunaway. She is "Evelyn", a woman who suspects that her husband "Hollis" (Darrell Zwerling) is playing away from home. She engages the services of the cynical PI "Gittes" (Jack Nicholson) and pretty soon people are dead and he is embroiled in an inte...

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