As the movie goes on, you might feeling like a little kid in the backseat asking, "Are we there yet?" It takes awhile—and we mean several hours—to get to the actual Chinatown. Come on, Polanski...

Criminals usually want to steal suitcases with mysterious glowing objects in them (Pulp Fiction) or expensive bird statues (The Maltese Falcon) or money from a crashed drug smuggling plane (A Simpl...

This is the most unexpected incest revelation this side of Aerosmith's "Janie's Got a Gun." It's definitely the most shocking moment in the movie. You probably weren't expecting incest to suddenly...

There are a million and one possible pick-up lines. We're partial to "Are you a parking ticket? Because you've got fine written all over you." and "Are you dehydrated? Cause you look thirsty."But J...

In retrospect, if Noah had just chucked this dead dude's corpse into the ocean, Jake Gittes never would've been able to figure out most of the mystery. (Hindsight's always 20/20.) After the police...

The American Dream in Chinatown is really an American Nightmare: instead of white picket fences, it's corpses in dry riverbeds. Instead of a two-car garage and 2.2 children, it's incest babies and...