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MPAA Rating: R Content Advisory: Violence, Nudity, Adult Situations, Not For Children, Profanity, Sexual Situations Movie Release: 1990 DVD Release: 11/23/1999 Format: DVD - Enhanced Wide Screen Letterbox for 16x9 TV Audio Tracks: English, French Subtitles: English SwapaDVD Credits: 1 Number of Discs: 1 Run Time: 2 hrs 17 mins Studio: Paramount Members Wishing: 4 Genres: Mystery, Post-Noir (Modern Noir) See Also: The Two Jakes, The Two Jakes [Collector's Edition], The Two Jakes [Collector's Edition] [Widescreen]

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., All Movie Guide

Jack Nicholson - Jake Gittes
Harvey Keitel - Jake Berman
Meg Tilly - Kitty Berman
Madeleine Stowe - Lillian Bodine
Eli Wallach - Cotton Weinberger

Follow the money to the truth with detective Jake Gittes in Paramount's release of this exciting follow-up to Roman Polanski's Chinatown (1974). Presented widescreen in the original 1.85:1 theatrical aspect ratio (enhanced for 16 x 9 TVs), this release also features closed-captioned English Dolby Digital 5.1 and Surround audio options, an additional French Dolby Digital Surround track, and selectable English subtitles. Aside from the standard interactive menus and scene selection, the sole extra feature is a theatrical trailer. ~ Jason Buchanan, All Movie Guide