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Chinatown
Many criminal cases and abuses are investigated by Jake Gates, a private detective. Jake was set up to investigate the case of adultery. But then Jake reveals the existence of a murder plot by a thief and the issue of water privatization through government corruption, land use, real estate, criminal cases and other issues. Jake is still threatened if he does not immediately drop the case, facing threats of severe legal action against him but still pursuing those cases without a response.
15 July 1906, Manila, Philippines
2 May 1932, Chicago, Illinois, USA
17 November 1928, Oklahoma, USA
1916, New York City, New York, USA
October 11, 1903 in Gough, Texas, USA
September 7, 1906
July 30, 1914 in Lowell, Massachusetts, USA
10 November 1919, San Diego, California, USA
17 December 1923, Kankakee, Illinois, USA
31 August 1931, Mineola, Texas, USA
January 03, 2013
Unmissable.
August 05, 2003
In 1974 a director, a screenwriter, and a producer (Robert Evans, who for once deserves a few of the plaudits he's apportioned himself) could decide to beat a genre senseless and then dump it in the wilds of Greek tragedy.
January 18, 2013
As much as I admire the work of both Polanski and Nicholson, I found Chinatown tedious from beginning to just before the end.
February 04, 2014
Chinatown is deliciously, intolerably cruel as it toys with us.
March 27, 2009
Polanski's film suggests that the rules of the game are written in some strange, untranslatable language, and that everyone's an alien and, ultimately, a victim.
January 05, 2013
This film is flawless.
May 20, 2003
A new private-eye melodrama that celebrates not only a time and a place (Los Angeles) but also a kind of criminality that to us jaded souls today appears to be nothing worse than an eccentric form of legitimate private enterprise.
January 04, 2013
Polanski's telling of his tale of corruption in LA is masterly - thrilling, humorous and disturbing at the same time - and brilliantly played by John Huston and Faye Dunaway as well as Nicholson.
February 09, 2006
The hard-boiled private eye coolly strolls a few steps ahead of the audience.
January 03, 2013
See this film as many times as you can. Please.
May 18, 2016
As private investigator Jake Gittes, hired to dig up some dirt on Hollis Mulwray, chief engineer of Los Angeles's water department, Nicholson saunters round the city delivering one-liners with offhand brilliance.
March 27, 2009
Roman Polanski's American made film, first since Rosemary's Baby shows him again in total command of talent and physical filmmaking elements.
