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Warner Bros. Pictures
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Release Date: Sep 19, 1997
Running Time: 135 mins.
Country Of Origin: United States
synopsis
Curtis Hanson's adaptation of the James Ellroy best-seller is that rarest of modern Hollywood creations, a crime drama with the brains, sex appeal, humor, danger and action to satisfy all tastes. The best film about Los Angeles since "Chinatown."
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Jack Vincennes
Bud White
Ed Exley
Dudley Smith
Lynn Bracken
Sid Hudgens
Pierce Patchett
District Attorney Ellis Loew
'Badge of Honor' Star Brett Chase
Mickey Cohen
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reviews
February 21, 2001
Check the back shelves of your video store for the moldering remains of films that want to be Chinatown. Robert Towne's Oscar-winning screenplay for that 1974 crime classic, starring Jack Nicholson as private eye Jake Gittes, used a 1930s water scandal to track corruption in the City of Angels and reflect the moral compromises of the Watergate era in which the film was made. Piss-poor imitators, including Mulholland Falls and The Two Jakes, a Chinatown sequel, were clobbered both critically and…
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