Jake Squared

Name: Jake Squared
Genre: Drama, Comedy
Released: August 15, 2014
Duration: 100 min
Rating: 30
Cast: Elias Koteas, Jennifer Jason Leigh, Virginia Madsen

2014

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Freestyle Releasing | Release Date: August 15, 2014 | R

Starring: Elias Koteas, Jennifer Jason Leigh, Virginia Madsen

Summary: Jake Klein (Elias Koteas), 50, sets out to make a movie. He hires an actor to play himself and throws a big party. His idea is to shoot the heck out of it and see what he gets. But, everything spins out of control as different, unexpected people show up. Old loves are there. New loves are there. His dead father, his mother when she wasJake Klein (Elias Koteas), 50, sets out to make a movie. He hires an actor to play himself and throws a big party. His idea is to shoot the heck out of it and see what he gets. But, everything spins out of control as different, unexpected people show up. Old loves are there. New loves are there. His dead father, his mother when she was young, his kids, his ex-wife. Even his younger selves, Jake at 40, Jake at 30 and Jake at 17, are there, too! And every one of them has tons of advice on how to fix his screwed up life. Jake’s head reels as he staggers through what’s either a mystical experience, a nervous breakdown... or both!… Expand

Director: Howard Goldberg

Genre(s): Drama, Comedy

Rating: R

Runtime: 100 min

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Stephen Dalton

Aug 14, 2014

Goldberg has made a commendably adventurous and mostly enjoyable meta-comedy that recalls both the best and worst of 1970s Hollywood. Read full review

Simon Abrams

Aug 12, 2014

More enervating than it is ambitious, Jake Squared is partly a romantic comedy and mostly a pseudo-philosophical apology for self-absorption. Read full review

Charles Solomon

Aug 14, 2014

Koteas and the rest of the cast (including Jane Seymour, Virginia Madsen and Jennifer Jason Leigh) struggle gamely with the material, but they're defeated by the nonstop chatter, Goldberg's flat-footed direction and the needlessly choppy cutting. Read full review

Ben Kenigsberg

Aug 14, 2014

Jake Squared combines the most grating tendencies of meta navel-gazing with the sexism of reality television — pushing the limit of viewer tolerance to zero. Read full review

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JLuis_001

May 12, 2018

A pretty interesting and ambitious premise that ends up wasted in a rude and careless way.

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