The Two Jakes

• 5.951 Crime
• 1990-08-10
• 137 minutes mins

Real estate developer Jake Berman hires private investigator and war veteran Jake Gittes for some run-of-the-mill matrimonial work. After Berman shoots his wife's lover, who happens to be his business partner, Gittes is drawn into a web of conspiracy and deceit involving the oil reserves beneath Los Angeles. While investigating, Gittes hears a voice from his past that causes him to revisit a traumatic case in Chinatown.

Starring:

Jack Nicholson (J.J. "Jake" Gittes) Harvey Keitel (Julius "Jake" Berman) Meg Tilly (Kitty Berman) Madeleine Stowe (Lillian Bodine) Eli Wallach (Cotton Weinberger) Rubén Blades (Mickey Nice) Frederic Forrest (Chuck Newty) David Keith (Det. Lt. Loach) Richard Farnsworth (Earl Rawley) Tracey Walter (Tyrone Otley)

Director:

Jack Nicholson

Writer:

Robert Towne