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The Two Jakes is the sequel to the 1974 movie Chinatown. Directed by and starring Jack Nicholson, it co-starred Harvey Keitel, Meg Tilly, Madeleine Stowe, and Richard Farnsworth. It was released by Paramount Pictures on August 10, 1990.

Plot summary

Los Angeles, 1948. Jake Berman has hired private investigator Jake 'J.J.' Gittes to catch his wife in the act of committing adultery. During the sting, Berman shoots the man who turns out to be his partner in a real estate company. Gittes, now under intense scrutiny for his unwitting part in the crime, must figure out if it was justifiable homicide or murder and how it connects with California's booming oil industry as well as his own past after he stumbles upon a wire recording during the investigation that mentions 'Katherine Mulwray,' the daughter of Faye Dunaway's ill-fated character from Chinatown.

Trivia

Screenwriter Robert Towne originally planned a trilogy of movies involving private investigator J.J. Gittes. The third movie, called Cloverleaf after a downtown Los Angeles interchange, was to take place in the 1950's and concerned the building of the massive freeway system and resultant air pollution, continuing with the backdrop of greedy developers and tycoons as in Chinatown (water rights) and The Two Jakes (oil).

Category:1990 films Category:Crime films Category:Mystery films Category:Neo-noir

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