Chinatown
“You get tough. You get tender. You get close to each other. Maybe you even get close to the truth.”
Director
Roman Polanski
Screenplay
Robert Towne
1 Oscar · 21 wins · 24 nominations
In sun-bleached, pre-war Los Angeles, slick private eye Jake Gittes takes what looks like a routine adultery case and finds himself pulled into a conspiracy over the city's water supply, family secrets too dark to name, and a socialite hiding a devastating truth. Every answer only deepens the rot. Roman Polanski crafts one of cinema's supreme neo-noirs, a slow, immaculate descent into corruption where power always wins and innocence is a fatal liability. Robert Towne's screenplay and Jack Nicholson's bandaged detective make it a landmark of American filmmaking, cynical, elegant and unforgettable.
Release
Jun 20, 1974
Budget
$6M
Country
United States of America
Revenue
$30M
Cast
Jack Nicholson
J.J. 'Jake' Gittes
Faye Dunaway
Evelyn Cross Mulwray
John Huston
Noah Cross
Perry Lopez
Lieutenant Lou Escobar
Burt Young
Curly
John Hillerman
Russ Yelburton
Darrell Zwerling
Hollis I. Mulwray
Roman Polanski
Man with Knife
Diane Ladd
Ida Sessions
Richard Bakalyan
Detective Loach
Joe Mantell
Lawrence Walsh
Roy Jenson
Claude Mulvihill
James Hong
Evelyn's Butler
Bruce Glover
Duffy
James O'Rear
Lawyer
Beulah Quo
Maid
Roy Roberts
Mayor Bagby
Noble Willingham
Councilman
Rance Howard
Irate Farmer
C.O. Erickson
Customer
Fritzi Burr
Mulwray's Secreatry
Charles Knapp
Mortician
Allan Warnick
Clerk
John Holland
Farmer in the Valley
Jesse Vint
Farmer in the Valley
Reviews
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