Chinatown (1974)

Name: Chinatown
Released: 1974
Rating: 7.7
Cast: Jack Nicholson, Faye Dunaway, John Huston, Perry Lopez, John Hillerman

• Movies, Crime, Drama, Mystery, Thriller

• 130 min

7.9

You get tough. You get tender. You get close to each other. Maybe you even get close to the truth.

Directed by: Roman Polanski
Casting: Jack Nicholson, Faye Dunaway, John Huston, Perry Lopez, John Hillerman, Diane Ladd, Roman Polanski, Roy Jenson, Richard Bakalyan, James Hong, Bruce Glover, Joe Mantell, Roy Roberts, Noble Willingham, Rance Howard, Jesse Vint, Burt Young, Lee de Broux, Darrell Zwerling, Nandu Hinds, James O'Rear, Beulah Quo, Jerry Fujikawa, Belinda Palmer, Elliott Montgomery, George Justin, C.O. Erickson, Charles Knapp, Claudio Martínez, Federico Roberto, Allan Warnick, John Holland, Jim Burk, Denny Arnold, Elizabeth Harding, John Rogers, Cecil Elliott, Paul Jenkins, Bob Golden, Richard Warren, Fritzi Burr, Cosmo Sardo, Charles Fogel
Countries: United States of America
Premiere: 1974-06-20
Status: Released

Tags: dying and death, sea, pedophilia, rape, mistake in person, river, chinatown, barrage, femme fatale, conspiracy, whodunit, los angeles, california, private detective, neo-noir

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.