Chinatown

About Chinatown

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.

Roman Polanski's Chinatown is a 1974 crime mystery film. Released in June 1974, it runs 130 minutes.

Jack Nicholson appears as J.J. 'Jake' Gittes, Faye Dunaway as Evelyn Cross Mulwray, John Huston as Noah Cross, and Perry Lopez as Lieutenant Lou Escobar. Written by Robert Towne and Roman Polanski.

Members will find dying and death, whodunit, private detective, and sea in it. It streams on fuboTV, MGM+ Amazon Channel, and MGM Plus in the United States.

Who Framed Roger Rabbit, Pulp Fiction, and Memento make useful companions to Chinatown, all filed under neo-noir. It scores 7.9 out of 10 from 4,431 TMDB voters and it carries a R rating.