Real estate developer Jake Berman hires private investigator and war veteran Jake Gittes for some run-of-the-mill matrimonial work. After Berman shoots his wife's lover, who happens to be his business partner, Gittes is drawn into a web of conspiracy and deceit involving the oil reserves beneath Los Angeles. While investigating, Gittes hears a voice from his past that causes him to revisit a traumatic case in Chinatown.

• DirectorJack Nicholson
• Release10 August 1990
• Genre
  Crime / Drama
• Duration2h 17m
• Budget$19,000,000
• Revenue$10,005,969
• Rate
  

  6.0
  238 reviews
• Productions

  Paramount Pictures