Chinatown

Chinatown

1974 · 130 min · EN · R · 7.9 (4,269 votes)
Dir. Roman Polanski · Starring Jack Nicholson, Faye Dunaway, John Huston, Perry Lopez, Burt Young, John Hillerman · Music Jerry Goldsmith · The Jake Gittes Collection

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

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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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A sun-drenched, yet deeply cynical and unsettling experience, Chinatown immerses you in a world of inescapable corruption and moral decay. Its atmospheric neo-noir style slowly tightens a grip of dread, leaving a lingering sense of fatalism. It's beautiful, but profoundly disturbing.

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