Chinatown
You get tough. You get tender. You get close to each other. Maybe you even get close to the truth.
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.
- Director
- Roman Polanski
- Signature
- Craft · Tension · Drama
- Worldwide
- $30M
Who's in it
Cast
The billed ensemble, with character names. Open any performer for their Nutevio filmography.
The Nutevio profile
Movie DNA
How Chinatown actually feels to watch, measured on the twelve traits our editors track across every Nutevio title.
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Story overview
What It's About
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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.
Where to watch
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Why We Recommend It
Why It's Ranked
Chinatown appears in 2 Nutevio collections. Here is the argument behind each placement.
- Mystery Movies Ranked #25
Placed at #25 by the Nutevio ranking model. An editor's written case is on the way.
- Top 100 Crime Movies Ranked #51
Placed at #51 by the Nutevio ranking model. An editor's written case is on the way.
The numbers
Box Office & Release
Chinatown returned 5.0× its budget worldwide.
- Budget
- $6M
- Opening weekend
- —
- Domestic gross
- —
- International gross
- —
- Worldwide gross
- $30M
- Release date
- Jun 20, 1974
- Runtime
- 2h 10m
- MPAA rating
- —
- Language
- Cantonese, English
- Country
- United States of America
Figures from the verified production record. Fields we cannot source are left blank rather than estimated.
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