Films with: Towne, Robert

Chinatown

"The plot is a labyrinth of successive revelations having to do with Los Angeles water reserves, land rights, fraud and intra-family hanky-panky, climaxing in Los Angeles's Chinatown on a street that seems no more mysterious than Flatbush Avenue."--Vincent Canby, New York times.

DVD 37

Mission: impossible 2

IMF agent Ethan Hunt partners up with Nyah Hall to stop renegade agent Sean Ambrose from releasing a new kind of terror on an unsuspecting world.

DVD 2957

Shampoo

"George is one of L.A.'s most desirable men, a Beverly Hills hairdresser who makes all his female clients look, and feel, better than ever. Encouraged by his girlfriend Jill to open his own salon, George approaches conservative businessman Lester for financing. Unbeknownst to Lester, George is sleeping with his wife, his mistress and his teenage daughter"--Container.

DVD 5879

Two Jakes

Set in 1948 Los Angeles, this is a sequel to Chinatown. Jake Gittes is a successful private eye who takes on a case of suspected adultery that explodes into murder that's tied to a grab for oil and to Jake's own past.

DVD 641

Without limits

A fictionalized account of Steve Prefontaine, a distance runner, who took the sport into a new era.

DVD 7107