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.
- Sexual violence
- Harm to children
- Bleak ending
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Meticulous, classical in form, nostalgic and earnest.
- rawmeticulous
- classical in formformally daring
- contemporarynostalgic
- earnestironic
- gravecomic
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Cast
- Jack NicholsonJ.J. 'Jake' Gittes
- Faye DunawayEvelyn Cross Mulwray
- John HustonNoah Cross
- Perry LopezLieutenant Lou Escobar
- Burt YoungCurly
- John HillermanRuss Yelburton
- Darrell ZwerlingHollis I. Mulwray
- Roman PolanskiMan with Knife
- Diane LaddIda Sessions
- Richard BakalyanDetective Loach
Crew
- Roman PolanskiDirector
- Robert TowneWriter
- Roman PolanskiWriter
- John A. AlonzoDirector of Photography
- Jerry GoldsmithOriginal Music Composer
- Sam O'SteenEditor
- Robert EvansProducer
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Pairings
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