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Mar 15, 2010 at 08:26 AM |
 JJ 'Jake' Gittes is a private detective who seems to specialize in matrimonial cases. He is hired by Evelyn Mulwray when she suspects her husband Hollis, builder of the city's water supply system, of having an affair. Gittes does what he does best and photographs him with a young girl but in the ensuing scandal, it seems he was hired by an impersonator and not the real Mrs. Mulwray. When Mr. Mulwray is found dead, Jake is plunged into a complex web of deceit involving murder, incest and municipal corruption all related to the city's water supply.
On the heels of filmmaker Roman Polanski’s critically acclaimed thriller The Ghost Writer, out in wide release on March 7, downtown Peoria’s nonprofit Apollo theater is screening his 1974 classic Chinatown this Friday, March 19.
Chinatown – named to the American Film Institute’s Top 100 motion pictures – stars Jack Nicholson as Los Angeles private investigator Jake Gittes, who finds himself involved in a dangerous mystery of community and family corruption.
Set in 1937, the Oscar-winning screenplay by Robert Towne presents confusing maneuvers with southern California’s water, scandalous relationships among L.A.’s rich and powerful, and a persistent detective more comfortable probing unfaithful spouses than crooked industrial titans.
Co-starring Faye Dunaway, John Huston, Diane Ladd, Burt Young and John Hillerman, the modern, Technicolor film noir was nominated for another 10 Academy Awards, including music director Jerry Goldsmith’s haunting score.
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