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Director: | Roman Polanski |
Studio: | Paramount Home Video |
Producer: | C.O. Erickson, Robert Evans |
Writer: | Robert Towne |
Rating: | 4.5 |
Rated: | R |
Date Added: | 2006-03-27 |
ASIN: | B000022TSF |
UPC: | 0097361551678 |
Price: | $19.99 |
Awards: | Won Oscar. Another 17 wins & 22 nominations |
Genre: | Con Artists |
Release: | 1999-11-22 |
IMDb: | 0071315 |
Duration: | 131 |
Picture Format: | Widescreen |
Aspect Ratio: | 2.35:1 |
Sound: | Dolby |
Languages: | English, Dolby Digital 5.1, French, Dolby Digital 2.0 Mono |
Subtitles: | English |
Features: | Anamorphic |
Summary: Roman Polanski's brooding film noir exposes the darkest side of the land of sunshine, the Los Angeles of the 1930s, where power is the only currency--and the only real thing worth buying. Jack Nicholson is J.J. Gittes, a private eye in the Chandler mold, who during a routine straying-spouse investigation finds himself drawn deeper and deeper into a jigsaw puzzle of clues and corruption. The glamorous Evelyn Mulwray (a dazzling Faye Dunaway) and her titanic father, Noah Cross (John Huston), are at the black-hole center of this tale of treachery, incest, and political bribery. The crackling, hard-bitten script by Robert Towne won a well-deserved Oscar, and the muted color cinematography makes the goings-on seem both bleak and impossibly vibrant. Polanski himself has a brief, memorable cameo as the thug who tangles with Nicholson's nose. One of the greatest, most completely satisfying crime films of all time. --Anne Hurley
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