Chinatown

Name: Chinatown
Genre: Crime, Mystery, Thriller
Released: 1974-06-20
Duration: 130 min
Rating: 7.9

You get tough. You get tender. You get close to each other. Maybe you even get close to the truth.

2h 10m English, Spanish, Cantonese

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Chinatown

You get tough. You get tender. You get close to each other. Maybe you even get close to the truth.

2h 10m English, Spanish, Cantonese

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

Writer Roman Polanski Writer Robert Towne

Budget $6,000,000

Revenue $30,000,000

Net Return +$24,000,000

Performance 5.00x budget

Profitable

0x 1.0x (Budget) 2.5x (Est. Break-even)

* Movies typically require ~2.5x budget in ticket sales to cover marketing and theater splits.