Adapted by Simon Gray from his stage play and directed by Harold Pinter, the movie is a testament to Alan Bates, who, having originated the role on stage, delivers a tour-de-force performance, simultaneously witty, pathetic, and tragic.
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Directed by Jack Clayton, from an adaptation by Francis Ford Coppola, this was the third film version of F. Scott Fitzgerald’s Jazz Age masterpiece.
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The second scene is where the boys are horsing around and, wouldn’t you know it, next thing they are pounding one another. Very sexy.
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Polanski captured the FEEL of LA better than anyone before or sense. Jack Nicholson gives his greatest performance as private dick J. J. ” Jake” Gittes.
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Once is Not Enough benefits from strong performances by Smith, in her first appearance on screen in sixteen years and by Brenda Vaccaro as a high-powered magazine editor – Vaccaro received an Oscar nomination for her performance.
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