Chinatown (1974)
"You get tough. You get tender. You get close to each other. Maybe you even get close to the truth."
Critics Score
🎬 95%
(RT: 98%, MC: 92) RT = Rotten Tomatoes (critic reviews). MC = Metacritic (weighted critic average). Critics Score is the average of both.
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Cast
Perry Lopez as Lieutenant Lou Escobar
John Hillerman as Russ Yelburton
Is Chinatown good?
Most people think so. 81% of audiences gave it a thumbs up, by Google's archived audience score. Critics gave it 95%.
Where it ranks on ThumbScore
By audience score, among films with 500 or more votes.
Overview
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. Wikipedia ↗
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