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Drama, Mystery, Thriller
Roman Polanski
Robert Towne
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Jack Nicholson
Faye Dunaway
John Huston
Perry Lopez
John Hillerman
Darrell Zwerling
Diane Ladd
Roy Jenson
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Chinatown

(1974)
147 reviews
Film rated 4.5 / 5  (Chick rating: 4.5 / 5)  (Guy rating: 4.4 / 5)
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Jack calls Polanski 'midget'.
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Jack noses around L.A.
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Evil Huston outsmarts Jack.
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Noah gets the girl.
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Cross despoils water, daughter.
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Jack noses out murder.
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Huston's second 'Noah' role.
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Jack slaps Dunaway around.
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Nefarious Huston land grab.
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Dunaway doesn't get away.
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Huston is depravity incarnate.
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Jack handles the truth.
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Noah plunders 'the future!'
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Faye Dunaway's fatal Cross-ing.
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Saltwater 'bad for glass'.
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'Chinaman' joke falls flat.
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'Dumb Okies' pummel Gittes.
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Nosy fellows lose noses.
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Dunaway, Huston upstage Jack.
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Phony Ladd impersonates Dunaway.
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'That's a Mulwray'.
GHcool 
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Dunaway's Cross to bear.
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Water scheme involving Noah.
lemmycaution 
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Aqueduct scheme = land grab.
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Jack's all washed up.
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Cracked bifocals implicate Cross.
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Jack discovers incestuous secret.
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Detective Loach gets trigger-happy.
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Huston's 'capable of... ANYTHING!'
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Polanski wields the knife.
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Jack discovers family secrets.
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Nicholson, Huston Cross paths.
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Huston: father from hell.
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Jack tells 'Chinaman' joke.
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Water commissioner dies shoeless.
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'Midget' menaces Jack's nostril.
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Polanski's neo-noir masterpiece.
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Water. Land grab. Incest.
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Jack's dick gets wet.
Please Kill Me Now 
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Nicholson's most famous nosebleed.
AardBall 
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Mulholland derived.
noncentz 
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Gittes 'nose' the truth.
Domer 
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Polanski skewers genre, nose.
Stone Junction 
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Huston's dysfucktional family.
BaftaBaby 
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Jake finds watery glasses.
AJ Sidmouth 
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Nose bleeds, water flows.
Spontaneous Hum... 
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Noah likes flood, blood.
Jymkata 
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Flatfoot gets split nose.
Montgomery 
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Jack gets slap happy.
Downtown 
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Dick suffers knife injury.
punz 
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Dunaway delivers own sister.
rockfsh 
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L.A. parent traps Faye.
rand 
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Noir reinvention, watery conspiracy.
Jonny the Welsh 
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Conspiracy, detective all wet.
beluga 
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Nicholson dodges watery grave.
Fresno 
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Giddes gets nostril knifing.
Pathew Noodles 
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Blood sicker than water.
rockfsh 
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Jack, dad do Faye.
rand 
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Mother, sister, daughter murder.
MguyX 
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Huston probes forbidden passage.
randall 
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Gittes noses out clues.
Anonymous  
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Jack discovers incest plot.
Pumpkin 
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Nicholson's nasal passages unclogged.
beluga 
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Huston's his own son-in-law!
Fresno 
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Nickleson's nostril nastily nicked.
Dante 
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Nicholson's nose flows, goes.
palefox 
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Mono Lake drainage commences.
Sludge 
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Jack's nosed out.
Canklefish 
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Mr. Mulwray's last days.
Canklefish 
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Jack Noiry.
Beanmimo 
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Gittes exposes incesting mystery.
Greystone 
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Dunaway unites sister, daughter.
Sludge 
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Faye dunaway, Noah cross.
pizza 
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Nicholson 'noses' out truth.
Rovark 
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Detective nose too much.
soda 
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Nose wide open.
Sludge 
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Imposter wife dupes Jake.
Beanmimo 
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Mulwray's lover fought over.
Canklefish 
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Roman. Nose.
AC 
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Jack's barely private dick.
Sexton Ming 
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Jake nose who's guilty.
Canklefish 
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Sister. Slap. Daughter. Slap.
Sludge 
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Private eye. Bloody nose.
Sludge 
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Jack gets nose picked.
Sludge 
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JJ discovers watery deception.
shoon 
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Huston has a 'problem'.
Sludge 
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Jack investigates creepy family.
MelissaS 
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Dunaway: Heir. A parent.
Sludge 
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Jack nose his place.
Canklefish 
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Gumshoe loses shoe.
Pope George Ringo 
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Jack nose sleuthing.
kolo 
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Seabiscuit headline distracts Gittes.
Beanmimo 
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Noir Nicholson does Dunaway.
Al Swearengen 
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Nicholson gets third nostril.
Anika 
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Mulray drains lake, nose.
Sludge 
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Daughter is sister, ewwww!
karnage 
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Nose, plot, water. Quality.
Deluxe 
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Jake investigates water scandal.
bennyr81 
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Daughter is baby sister.
Badbart 
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The One Jake.
MM0rkeleb 
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