2 Jacks

Name: 2 Jacks
Director: Bernard Rose
Released: 2012

Synopsis

Jack Hussar is a legendary Hollywood director, whose persona commands respect and adoration from his fans. Can his son, Jack Jr. maintain his legacy?

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RogerEbert.com
Two Jacks is finally more of a curiosity than a viable dramatic event, but its bringing together of Danny and Jack Huston in a pair of tales related to their filmic legacy makes it a pungent if small addition to the legend of the Huston family.
60
The Dissolve
The movie as a whole has an immediacy that’s appealing even in its weaker second half.
60
The New York Times
Written and directed by Bernard Rose (“Immortal Beloved”), 2 Jacks has a pleasing circular structure, and it doesn’t push the parallels between old and new Hollywood to absurd limits.
50
New York Post
Danny Huston looks and sounds like his celebrated father, John, more and more each year, so I enjoyed watching him play a flamboyant and womanizing legendary director not unlike his old man in Bernard Rose’s modest little comedy.
50
The Hollywood Reporter
Ultimately, it’s little more than a trifle that’s enlivened by the older Huston’s inevitably referential performance.
40
Village Voice
False gravity weighs down 2 Jacks, a father-son drama less interested in exploring familial relations than in tut-tutting the millennials.
40
Los Angeles Times
Inconsistencies cause more confusion than the magic Rose is presumably going for.
30
Arizona Republic
If there’s any social commentary being made here, it doesn’t come through in performances so wooden you can’t tell if the actors are that bad or the characters that vapid.