The Two Jakes

Downtown Los Angeles, 1948. A rain-slicked streetlight flickers over a crumpled business card for J.J. Gittes, PI. A developer named Berman wants a quiet divorce check, but when the partner bleeds onto the bedroom rug, the investigation spills into the black gold beneath the city. The phone rings three decades late. Chinatown echoes in every rotary dial.

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Jack Nicholson directed The Two Jakes in 1990. See Jack Nicholson's full filmography, where to start with Jack Nicholson, or where to go after you've seen everything by Jack Nicholson.

The Two Jakes was released in 1990 (EN original-language production), with a runtime of 137 minutes.