The two Jakes [videorecording] / [presented by] Paramount Pictures ; produced by Robert Evans and Harold Schneider ; written by Robert Towne ; directed by Jack Nicholson.
Material type:
FilmPublisher number: 13097 | Paramount DVDLanguage: English, French, Spanish, Portuguese Original language: English Subtitle language: English, French, Spanish, Portuguese Publication details: Hollywood, Calif. : Paramount DVD, c2007.Edition: Special collector's ed., widescreen versionDescription: 1 videodisc (137 min.) : sd., col. ; 4 3/4 inISBN: - 1415734194
- 9781415734193
- Music, Van Dyke Parks ; director of photography, Vilmos Zsigmond ; editing, Anne Goursaud.
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Enhanced descriptions from Syndetics:
The Two Jakes is the much-delayed and rather convoluted sequel to the 1975 classic Chinatown. Released in 1990 after an abortive stab at shooting that began in the mid-'80s, the film was the subject of a creative feud between its principals, star Jack Nicholson, producer Robert Evans, and screenwriter Robert Towne. Private eye Jake Gittes (Jack Nicholson) is a middle-aged war hero, paunchy, snobbish about his golf game, and about to marry a lovely and much younger woman. Then a fleeting reference to a woman he once loved that he heard on a wire recording plunges him into a past he has tried to escape. It comes while he was spying on a philandering wife (Meg Tilly) and her paramour in her motel room for her husband, Jake Berman (Harvey Keitel). Then Berman shocks Gittes when he shoots his wife's lover. Gittes is doubly stunned when he learns that Berman was partners with the dead man in a subdivision that may contain huge oil deposits. So now Gittes wonders, was it justifiable homicide or murder? The answer lies in the wife (Madeleine Stowe) of the dead man, her shady oil baron friend (Richard Farnsworth), and in the past he has tried to avoid. ~ Nick Sambides, Jr., Rovi
"Enhanced for 16:9 TVs"--Container.
Edition from disc label and container.
Originally produced as a motion picture in 1990.
Sequel to: Chinatown.
Special features: featurette with Jack Nicholson: Jack on Jakes; theatrical trailer.
Music, Van Dyke Parks ; director of photography, Vilmos Zsigmond ; editing, Anne Goursaud.
Jack Nicholson, Harvey Keitel, Meg Tilly, Madeleine Stowe, Eli Wallach, Rubén Blades, Frederic Forrest, Joe Mantell, Perry Lopez, David Keith, Tracey Walter, James Hong, Richard Farnsworth.
In this sequel to Chinatown, it is 1948 Los Angeles and private investigator Jake Gittes must solve a case of suspected adultery-turned-murder that's tied to a grab for oil and to Jake's own past.
MPAA rating: R.
DVD, region 1; Dolby digital.
Sound track in English, French, Spanish or Portuguese with optional subtitles in English, French, Spanish, and Portuguese; closed-captioned.