Two Jacks

Last updated
Two Jacks
Two Jacks 2012 film poster.jpg
Promotional poster
Directed by Bernard Rose
Written byBernard Rose
Based on
Two Hussars
by
Produced byJulia Verdin
Starring Danny Huston
Sienna Miller
Jacqueline Bisset
Jack Huston
CinematographyBernard Rose
Release dates
  • August 25, 2012 (2012-08-25)(Montréal World Film Festival)
  • October 18, 2013 (2013-10-18)(United States)
CountryUnited States
LanguageEnglish

Two Jacks is a 2012 comedy-drama film directed by Bernard Rose starring Sienna Miller and Danny Huston. It is an adaptation of Leo Tolstoy's 1856 short story "Two Hussars" [1] and is Rose's fifth Tolstoy adaptation, following Anna Karenina (1997), Ivans XTC (2002), The Kreutzer Sonata (2008) and Boxing Day (2012). The film premiered in competition at the Montreal World Film Festival (August 23 to September 3, 2012). [2]

Contents

Plot

In 1992, Jack (Danny Huston), a legendary filmmaker, returns to Hollywood after a long absence. He is looking to secure finance for his new film project. His return to Tinseltown is heralded by a series of adventures, as he drinks freely, seduces a beautiful woman named Diana (Miller), quarrels with studio executives and finally procures funds for his new project by winning a poker game.

Twenty years on, the filmmaker's son (Jack Huston) arrives in Hollywood looking to make his directorial debut amid questions of whether he has inherited his father's gift. [3]

Cast

Related Research Articles

Robert Rodriguez American filmmaker

Robert Anthony Rodriguez is an American filmmaker, composer, and visual effects supervisor. He shoots, edits, produces, and scores many of his films in Mexico and in his home state of Texas. Rodriguez directed the 1992 action film El Mariachi, which was a commercial success after grossing $2.6 million against a budget of $7,000. The film spawned two sequels known collectively as the Mexico Trilogy: Desperado and Once Upon a Time in Mexico.

John Huston American actor, director and screenwriter

John Marcellus Huston was an American actor, director, screenwriter and visual artist. He traveled widely, settling at various times in France, Mexico, and Ireland. Huston was a citizen of the U.S. by birth but renounced this to become an Irish citizen and resident in 1964. He later returned to the U.S., where he lived the rest of his life. He wrote the screenplays for most of the 37 feature films he directed, many of which are today considered classics: The Maltese Falcon (1941), The Treasure of the Sierra Madre (1948), The Asphalt Jungle (1950), The African Queen (1951), The Misfits (1961), Fat City (1972), The Man Who Would Be King (1975) and Prizzi's Honor (1985).

Anjelica Huston American actress (born 1951)

Anjelica Huston is an American actress, author, director, producer and former fashion model. She is the daughter of director John Huston and granddaughter of actor Walter Huston. After reluctantly making her big screen debut in her father's A Walk with Love and Death (1969), Huston moved from London to New York City, where she worked as a model throughout the 1970s. She decided to actively pursue acting in the early 1980s, and, subsequently, had her breakthrough with her performance in Prizzi's Honor (1985), also directed by her father, for which she became the third generation of her family to receive an Academy Award, when she won Best Supporting Actress, joining both John and Walter Huston in this recognition. With the death of William Hurt she is the last living winning performer from that ceremony.

<i>Ivans Xtc</i> 2000 British film

ivansxtc is an American independent drama film co-written by Bernard Rose and Lisa Enos, produced by Lisa Enos and directed by Bernard Rose, the first of several Enos-Rose collaborations, including Snuff-Movie (2005), Kreutzer Sonata (2008) and Mr. Nice (2010). The film stars Danny Huston, Peter Weller, and Lisa Enos, with Rose and Enos' actual CAA agent, Adam Krentzmen, playing the role of fictional "Media Talent Agency" agent Barry Oaks. Other key roles include Morgan Walsh (Vukovic) as Lucy Lawrence, and SLC Punk director James Merendino in the role of director Danny McTeague. The story follows a Hollywood agent, Ivan Beckman, who must force a smile and carry on with business as usual with the agency's biggest client, Don West, in the face of a cancer diagnosis. The film, loosely based on Leo Tolstoy's 1886 novella The Death of Ivan Ilyich, was also inspired by the rise and fall of talent agent Jay Moloney.

Sienna Miller American and English actress (born 1981)

Sienna Rosie Diana Miller is an American and English actress. Born in New York City and raised in London, she began her career as a photography model, appearing in the pages of Italian Vogue and for the 2003 Pirelli calendar. Her acting breakthrough came in the 2004 films Layer Cake and Alfie. She subsequently portrayed socialite Edie Sedgwick in Factory Girl (2006) and author Caitlin Macnamara in The Edge of Love (2008), and was nominated for the 2008 BAFTA Rising Star Award. Her role as The Baroness in G.I. Joe: The Rise of Cobra (2009) was followed by a brief sabbatical from the screen amid increased tabloid scrutiny.

Rebecca Miller American actress and film director (born 1962)

Rebecca Augusta Miller, Lady Day-Lewis is an American filmmaker and novelist. She is known for her films Angela, Personal Velocity: Three Portraits, The Ballad of Jack and Rose, The Private Lives of Pippa Lee, and Maggie's Plan, all of which she wrote and directed, as well as her novels The Private Lives of Pippa Lee and Jacob's Folly. Miller received the Sundance Film Festival Grand Jury Prize for Personal Velocity and the Gotham Independent Film Award for Breakthrough Director for Angela.

Phillip Noyce Wikipedia project page

Template:StubsTemplate:StubsTemplate:Stubs

Danny Huston American actor, director and writer

Daniel Sallis Huston is an American actor, director and writer. In 1989, Huston directed Mr. North, which starred his half-sister, Anjelica Huston. Huston was nominated for Best Male Performance at the Independent Spirit Awards in 2003 for his performance in the independent film Ivans Xtc.

Matthew Jacobs is a British writer, director, producer and actor. He is known best for his extensive career writing for television shows like Doctor Who and The Young Indiana Jones Chronicles. He also directed two prize-winning TV movies for BBC films, Hallelujah Anyhow (1992) and Mothertime (1998). As an actor, he starred alongside Danny Huston in Boxing Day, Bernard Rose's 2012 adaptation of Leo Tolstoy's novella "Master and Man".

Bernard Rose (director)

Bernard Rose is an English filmmaker and screenwriter, considered a pioneer of digital filmmaking. He is best known for directing the horror films Paperhouse (1988) and Candyman (1992), the historical romances Immortal Beloved (1994) and Anna Karenina (1997), and the independent drama Ivans xtc (2000), for which he was nominated for the Independent Spirit Award for Best Director and the John Cassavetes Award. He has also been nominated for the Grand Prix des Amériques and the Venice Horizons Prize.

Jack Huston British actor

Jack Alexander Huston is a British actor. He appeared as Richard Harrow in the HBO television drama series Boardwalk Empire. He also had a supporting role in the 2013 film American Hustle, portrayed the eponymous Ben-Hur in the 2016 historical drama, and appeared as one of the main characters in the fourth season of the FX anthology series Fargo (2020).

<i>Anna Karenina</i> (1997 film) 1997 American period drama film

Anna Karenina is a 1997 American period drama film written and directed by Bernard Rose and starring Sophie Marceau, Sean Bean, Alfred Molina, Mia Kirshner and James Fox. Based on the 1877 novel of the same name by Leo Tolstoy, the film is about a young and beautiful married woman who meets a handsome count, with whom she falls in love. Eventually, the conflict between her passionate desires and painful social realities leads to depression and despair.

Ted Hope American film producer

Ted Hope is an American independent film producer based in New York City. He is best known for co-founding the production/sales company Good Machine, where he produced the first films of such notable filmmakers as Ang Lee, Nicole Holofcener, Todd Field, Michel Gondry, Moisés Kaufman, and Shari Springer Berman and Robert Pulcini, among others. Hope later co-founded This is That with several associates from Good Machine. He later worked at the San Francisco Film Society and Amazon Studios.

<i>The Kreutzer Sonata</i> (2008 film) 2008 film by Bernard Rose

The Kreutzer Sonata is a 2008 film directed by Bernard Rose based on the 1889 novella by Leo Tolstoy. starring Danny Huston, Elisabeth Röhm, Matthew Yang King and Anjelica Huston

The Film North – Huntsville International Film Festival (HIFF) is a film festival that takes place annually in Huntsville, Ontario, Canada. Held in September, the festival's mandate is to create a user-friendly environment for emerging Canadian and International Filmmakers. Film North 2014 tookplace at the Algonquin Theatre, Huntsville, Ontario from September 18 to 20. The program was announced in August. Film North is a charitable organization.

<i>The Girl</i> (2012 TV film) 2012 British television film by Julian Jarrold

The Girl is a 2012 British television film directed by Julian Jarrold, written by Gwyneth Hughes and produced by the BBC and HBO Films. The film stars Sienna Miller as Tippi Hedren and Toby Jones as Alfred Hitchcock. It is based on Donald Spoto's 2009 book Spellbound by Beauty: Alfred Hitchcock and His Leading Ladies, which discusses the English film director Hitchcock and the women who played leading roles in his films. The Girl's title was inspired by Hitchcock's alleged nickname for Hedren.

Rosie Fellner is an English/Irish actress and film producer. Fellner's first foray into the spotlight was on the cult TV show The Fast Show, which featured celebrity guest stars, such as Johnny Depp. Fellner also received attention for the popular British series, The Alan Clarke Diaries, for her portrayal of Joei Harkness, whose love affair with John Hurt's character causes a scandal. In addition, she notably appeared with Steve Coogan and Rob Brydon in the series, The Trip To Italy, as well as the movie version. Fellner has worked as an actress on TV, film, radio and on the stage, starring with Kate Beckinsale, Sean Bean, Robert De Niro, Geoffrey Rush, Heather Graham, and Jacqueline Bisset. Fellner co-founded the production company, Rosebud Pictures, with her husband, Adrian Vitoria.

<i>Yellow</i> (2012 film) 2012 American film

Yellow is a 2012 American drama film directed by Nick Cassavetes and written by Cassavetes and Heather Wahlquist. The film stars Wahlquist, Riley Keough, Sienna Miller, David Morse, Ray Liotta, Melanie Griffith and Lucy Punch.

<i>Boxing Day</i> (2012 film) 2012 film by Bernard Rose

Boxing Day is a 2012 British film directed by Bernard Rose. The film is roughly based on the 1895 Leo Tolstoy short story "Master and Man".

<i>Across the River and into the Trees</i> (film) 2022 film by Peter Flannery

Across the River and into the Trees is a 2022 film written by Peter Flannery and directed by Paula Ortiz, based on the 1950 novel of the same name by Ernest Hemingway. It stars Liev Schreiber, Matilda De Angelis, Danny Huston, Josh Hutcherson, and Laura Morante. The film premiered at the Sun Valley Film Festival on March 30, 2022.

References