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MPAA Raing: R
Director: Roman Polanski
Genres: Detective Film, Post-Noir (Modern Noir), Mystery
Box Office: / $12,400,000
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Summary:
"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 {... Full Summary >>

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Cast:
Jack Nicholson - (J.J. Gittes)
Faye Dunaway - (Evelyn Mulwray)
John Huston - (Noah Cross)
Perry Lopez - (Escobar)
John Hillerman - (Yelburton)
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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 ... Continue >>

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