The Two Jakes

The Two Jakes, Jack Nicholson's sequel to Roman Polanski's Chinatown, picks up 10 years after its predecessor, finding Jake Gittes (Nicholson) still mourning the death of Katherine Mulwray. Gittes becomes involved in another complicated case in The Two Jakes, with oil replacing water as the coveted natural resource. Jake becomes embroiled in a complex real estate scam through another man named Jake (Harvey Keitel), who believes that his wife (Jennifer Tilly) is cheating on him. Like Chinatown, this simple task unlocks to reveal an impossibly convoluted--but logical--plot.