Home > Movies > C > Chinatown

MPAA Rating: R
Director: Roman Polanski
Genre: Detective Film, Post-Noir (Modern Noir), Mystery
Box Office: / $12,400,000
Rating:

News:
• Review: 'Quantum Of Solace' Feels Too Slight
• Fifteen Flicks to Avoid on Family Movie Night
More News >>

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 1... Full Summary >>

Photo Gallery:

View All Pictures >>

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

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 ris ... Continue >>

Similar Movies:
2006 The Black Dahlia
2006 Hollywoodland
2001 The Pledge
More Similar Movies >>

Browse More Movies:
# A B C D E F G H I J K L M N O P Q R S T U V W X Y Z