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  • 2014
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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 was y...

Directed By: Howard Goldberg

Written By: Howard Goldberg

  • 2014
  • R
  • Freestyle Releasing
  • 1 h 40 m
  • 2014
  • R
  • Freestyle Releasing
  • 1 h 40 m

Jake Squared

Metascore Generally Unfavorable
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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 was y...

Directed By: Howard Goldberg

Written By: Howard Goldberg

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70
Aug 14, 2014
Goldberg has made a commendably adventurous and mostly enjoyable meta-comedy that recalls both the best and worst of 1970s Hollywood.
By Stephen Dalton FULL REVIEW
40
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.
By Simon Abrams FULL REVIEW
30
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.
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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.
By Ben Kenigsberg FULL REVIEW

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Production Company Aumont Productions, Beckett Films, Jake Squared
Release Date Aug 15, 2014
Duration 1 h 40 m
Rating R
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Website http://www.jakesquaredmovie.com/
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Awards

Big Apple Film Festival and Screenplay Competition
• 2 Wins & 3 Nominations
Phoenix Film Festival
• 2 Wins & 3 Nominations
Downtown Film Festival Los Angeles
• 2 Wins & 2 Nominations

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