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Chinatown (1974)

Name: Chinatown
Genre: Crime, Drama, Mystery, Thriller
Released: 1974
Rating: 7.9
Cast: Darrell Zwerling, Diane Ladd, Faye Dunaway, Jack Nicholson, John Hillerman

★ 7.9 · 4,235 ratings on TMDB

You get tough. You get tender. You get close to each other. Maybe you even get close to the truth.

★ 7.9

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.

DirectorRoman Polanski

CastDarrell Zwerling, Diane Ladd, Faye Dunaway, Jack Nicholson, John Hillerman, John Huston

GenresCrime, Drama, Mystery, Thriller

The emergence reading

Chinatown keeps every mind human — it fights its subject at zero distance. The story fights on E9/E10 of the E0–E14 reality ladder.

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