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Warner Bros. Pictures
details
Studio: Paramount Pictures
Release Date: Jan 1, 1990
Running Time: 138 mins.
Country Of Origin: United States
synopsis
Sequel to Roman Polanski's 1974 film "Chinatown." It is eleven years later and private eye J J Gittes becomes entangled in a murder and conspiracy scheme, stemming from the real estate deal that was part of the original film's plot.
cast + crew
Director
Jake Gittes
Jake Berman
Kitty Berman
Lillian Bodine
Cotton Weinberger
Mickey Nice
Newty
Loach
Earl Rawley
Tyrone Otley
Characters as Source Material
screenplay
reviews
December 8, 2000
The Two Jakes'587 9-20-90
It's ironic that the best movie about the Watergate era is Chinatown, a detective story set in 1937, nearly four decades ahead of the political coverup that shook the nation. Released in 1974, two years before the real Watergate tale was filmed in All the President's Men, Chinatown exposed moral rot masked by official sanctimony. In a juicy role, Jack Nicholson starred as Jake Gittes, a Los Angeles private eye on a divorce case who accidentally uncovers a land scam that… 
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