

Chinatown
You get tough. You get tender. You get close to each other. Maybe you even get close to the truth.
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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- Status
- Released
- Budget
- $6M
- Box office
- $30M
- Language
- Spanish
- dying and death
- sea
- pedophilia
- rape
- mistake in person
- river
- chinatown
- barrage
- femme fatale
- conspiracy
- whodunit
- los angeles, california
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United States of America
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Release dates
IndiaIN
- Digital / OTT9 Feb 2013
United StatesUS
- TheatricalR20 Jun 1974
United KingdomGB
- Theatrical159 Aug 1974
- TheatricalRe-release23 Apr 2004
AustraliaAU
- TheatricalM20 Dec 1974
CanadaCA
- Theatrical28 Jun 1974
ArgentinaAR
- Theatrical27 Feb 1975
BelgiumBE
- Theatrical1614 Mar 1975
BrazilBR
- Theatrical23 Sept 1974
- Physical12DVD/VHS CIC Video21 Feb 2001
ChileCL
- TheatricalRe-release4 Apr 2015
DenmarkDK
- Theatrical1510 Feb 1975
FinlandFI
- TheatricalK-169 May 1975
FranceFR
- Theatrical1212 Sept 1974
- TheatricalRe-release21 Nov 2012
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Chinatown was released on 20 June 1974.
Audience reviews
3- J9.5/10
John Chard
9/24/2015
He nose you know! Chinatown is directed by Roman Polanski and written by Robert Towne. It stars Jack Nicholson, Faye Dunaway, John Huston, Perry Lopez and John Hillerman. Music is by Jerry Goldsmith and cinematography by John A. Alonzo. Private investigator J.J. Gittes (Nicholson) is working on an adultery case but quickly finds himself embroiled in murder and corruption. The gathering of Polanski, Towne, Ni…
- F10/10
Filipe Manuel Neto
7/29/2022
**Great.** I can't say much about Roman Polanski because I feel I've seen too little of his work to make a more global analysis: I have only seen _The Ninth Gate_, _The Pianist_ and, now, this film. It's not much… but the truth is that they are three films that I really liked, and about which I have a very good opinion. This film is very good, fitting into a style that we can call “neo-noir”, insofar as its visual…
- C7/10
CinemaSerf
9/9/2022
I think this might be my favourite role from Faye Dunaway. She is "Evelyn", a woman who suspects that her husband "Hollis" (Darrell Zwerling) is playing away from home. She engages the services of the cynical PI "Gittes" (Jack Nicholson) and pretty soon people are dead and he is embroiled in an internecine story of adultery, corruption and manipulation that proves pretty perilous for a detective who is working with o…
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