The Two Jakes (Blu-ray)
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Blu-ray Details
- Encoding: Region A
- Released: September 15, 2020
- Originally Released: 1990
- Label: Paramount
Performers, Cast and Crew:
Starring | Jack Nicholson, Harvey Keitel, Meg Tilly, Madeleine Stowe & Eli Wallach | |
Performer: | Rubén Blades, Frederic Forrest, David Keith, Tracey Walter, Joe Mantell, James Hong, Perry Lopez, Rebecca Broussard & Richard Farnsworth | |
Directed by | Jack Nicholson | |
Edited by | Anne Goursaud | |
Screenwriting by | Robert Towne | |
Composition by | Van Dyke Parks | |
Produced by | Robert Evans & Harold Schneider | |
Director of Photography: | Vilmos Zsigmond |
Entertainment Reviews:
Rating: 2.5/5 --
feels a lot like a retread of Chinatown, only without the style and panache that Polanski brought to the table
Filmcritic.com
Rating: 3.5/4 --
It's not a thriller and it's not a whodunit, although it contains thriller elements and at the end we do find out whodunit. It's an exquisite short story about a mood, and a time, and a couple of guys who are blind-sided by love.
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Chicago Sun-Times
Rating: 3.5/4 --
The Two Jakes is the best Chinatown sequel anyone could reasonably expect, and it's very much worth a look.
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Combustible Celluloid
Rating: 4/5 --
Of course it's no "Chinatown," but it is satisfyingly moody and atmospheric.
Capital Times (Madison, WI)
Rating: 2/5 --
Disappointing follow-up to Chinatown
Lawrence Journal-World
...A surprisingly rich movie....Nicholson, who's in virtually every scene, gives a subdued but whoppingly good performance...
USA Today
Rating: 3/4 --
Nicholson's turn as Gittes is enjoyable, but it never quite feels like the same man from Chinatown. Yet The Two Jakes is admirably dense in a manner that's satisfying rather than frustrating.
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Creative Loafing
Product Description:
This sequel to CHINATOWN opens in the postwar boom of 1948 as developers rapaciously exploit the natural resources of Southern California. With his small, dingy practice expanded into a thriving operation, Private Investigator Jake Gittes (Jack Nicholson) is now a card-carrying member of the bourgeoisie and engaged to be married. He still does a divorce case occasionally, however, and it is just such a case that draws Gittes into a complicated web of intrigue and corruption involving the mysterious daughter of the dead Evelyn Mulwray. When the husband of an adulterous wife (whom Gittes is investigating) murders his wife's lover, it first appears to be a simple crime of passion. But as the case unfolds, it turns out that the victim was actually the husband's real-estate partner, and the murder may have been committed in order to gain control of a lucrative property development. In his effort to solve the mystery, Jake is forced to reexamine the painful events of his past--specifically, his love affair with Evelyn Mulwray.
Keywords:
Detectives
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Mystery
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Suspense
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Thriller
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Murder
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Film Noir
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Recommended
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Nostalgic
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Theatrical Release
Product Info
- Sales Rank: 6,519
- UPC: 032429346445
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