Chinatown
Directed by	Roman Polanski
Written by	Robert Towne
Cast
Jake Gittes	Jack Nicholson
Evelyn Mulwray	Faye Dunaway
Noah Cross	John Huston
Lieutenant Escobar	Perry Lopez
Other Information
1974	131 Minutes
R	In English

"Forget it, Jake--it's Chinatown." The opaque shrug that ends this 1970s classic embodies the film's world-weary depiction of people who are never what they seem and who have dark motives that dwell deep below the surface. Like the water that drives the plot, secrets in Chinatown have a way of bubbling up in the most unexpected places, as detective Jake Gittes (Jack Nicholson) discovers when he takes on Evelyn Mulwray (Faye Dunaway) as a client. This film is not so much a recreation of the classic-era Chandler and Hammett private-eye stories as an outright celebration of the depravity they only hinted at--a stunning achievement for director Roman Polanski.

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