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The Pledge received mainly positive reviews from critics. The film has a score of 78% on Rotten Tomatoes based on 124 reviews, with an average rating of 6.88/10. The critical consensus states: "Though its subject matter is grim and may make viewers queasy, The Pledge features an excellent, subtle performance by Jack Nicholson."
Mulholland built this dam after completing the aqueduct and its failure was the greatest man-made disaster in the history of California. These echoes have led many viewers to regard Chinatown, not only as docudrama, but as truth—the real secret history of how Los Angeles got its water. And it has become a ruling metaphor of the non-fictional ...
The movie follows private eye Jake Gittes (Jack Nicholson) as he crosses paths with a wronged woman (Faye Dunaway) and gets drawn into the complicated criminal underbelly of 1930s-era Los Angeles.
In 1978, Nicholson directed and starred in another western, Goin' South. In 1980, Nicholson played Jack Torrance in Stanley Kubrick's The Shining. For his portrayal of playwright Eugene O'Neill in Reds (1981), Nicholson was awarded the BAFTA Award for Best Actor in a Supporting Role. [10]
When the Lumiere brothers held the first commercial cinema screening in Paris almost 130 years ago, few could have imagined what an all-consuming monster it would become. With multi-million dollar ...
The California water wars were among the subjects discussed in Cadillac Desert, a 1984 nonfiction book by Marc Reisner about land development and water policy in the western United States. The book was made into a four-part documentary of the same name in 1997.
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An Italian TV movie was made in 1979, as La promessa. [1] A Hungarian adaptation was made by György Fehér, Szürkület (1990) [2] Another adaptation was the Dutch movie The Cold Light of Day (1996). In 2001 the novel received its most faithful adaptation in The Pledge, starring Jack Nicholson and directed by Sean Penn.