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Chinatown
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Audience Rating: R (Restricted)
Binding: VHS Tape
EAN: 9786300216501
Format: Closed-captioned, Color, HiFi Sound, Live, NTSC
ISBN: 0792106105
Label: Paramount Home Video
Languages: English (Original Language), Analog
Manufacturer: Paramount Home Video
Number Of Items: 1
Publisher: Paramount Home Video
Release Date: February 10, 1998
Running Time: 131 minutes
Studio: Paramount Home Video
Theatrical Release Date: June 20, 1974
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Editorial Review:
Roman Polanski's brooding film noir exposes the darkest side of the land of sunshine, the Los Angeles of the 1930s, where power is the only currency--and the only real thing worth buying. Jack Nicholson is J.J. Gittes, a private eye in the Chandler mold, who during a routine straying-spouse investigation finds himself drawn deeper and deeper into a jigsaw puzzle of clues and corruption. The glamorous Evelyn Mulwray (a dazzling Faye Dunaway) and her titanic father, Noah Cross (John Huston), are at the black-hole center of this tale of treachery, incest, and political bribery. The crackling, hard-bitten script by Robert Towne won a well-deserved Oscar, and the muted color cinematography makes the goings-on seem both bleak and impossibly vibrant. Polanski himself has a brief, memorable cameo as the thug who tangles with Nicholson's nose. One of the greatest, most completely satisfying crime films of all time. --Anne Hurley
Customer Reviews
Average Rating: 
Rating:  - Great film-noir atmosphere
Great noir films must have a certain dark, brooding atmosphere and Chinatown has this atmosphere in spades. This film starts as a relatively simple detective story about a philandering husband but slowly the layers of the onion are peeled back and the web of intrigue becomes more complex and seedy. Ultimately, you can see that the story is headed for a train wreck, it is simply a question of how it will unfold. Jack Nicholson plays the shady detective who is digging for the truth about a murder ... Read More
Rating: - Chinatown
My favorite movie of all time. A great purchase. Wish it were on bluray.
Rating:  - Yes, Somewhat Overrated
A good movie, but a great one? I think the Amazon review is a bit heavy on the hype. This was a good movie, even a very good movie, but I often found it somewhat slow, and the ending was less than satisfying. Not what I'd call 5 star material (but maybe I'm using the wrong evaluation criteria - entertainment value counts for a lot with me.. and while there was definitely some, it didn't reach the 5 star mark in my book). Certainly the pace picked up quite a bit in the last 3rd of the movie - which ... Read More
Rating:  - Truly Over Rated
I'm in the process of watching all of the movies on AFI's Top 100 list. This is one I hadn't seen yet and so far it is my least favorite. I just don't get it at all. Why this is on the list is beyond me. The movie was choppy, the acting was hokey, and the plot was weak.
Rating: - A movie that starts off as one thing and changes to another mid-way
"Chinatown" was recently included on the AFI's Top 10 Mysteries list, and as it was the only film on the list that I hadn't seen, and I liked 8 of the 9 films that I had seen (sorry, I just didn't like "The Third Man"), I thought it would be worth giving it a try. I am now glad that I have seen this film, considering it is so highly regarded, but to say that this is the second greatest mystery movie of all time, and a better movie than "Rear Window", "Laura" and "Blue Velvet" (three of my favourite movies), ... Read More
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