Jack Nicholson Collection

Collection of four films starring the Oscar-winning actor, Jack Nicholson. 'Chinatown' (1974), one of the key American films of the 1970s, is Roman Polanski's detective yarn which sees murder and scandal emerge from the drought of 1930s Southern California. Private eye Jake Gittes (Nicholson) is hired to follow water commissioner Hollis Mulwray (Darrell Zwerling), only to see him turn up dead at the bottom of a reservoir. Realising he has been used, Gittes confronts Mulwray's widow Evelyn (Faye Dunaway), a woman who seems to have plenty of secrets of her own, not least her ambiguous relationship with her father Noah Cross (John Huston). In 'The Two Jakes' (1990), the belated sequel to 'Chinatown', Nicholson returns to his role as Jake Gittes. It is 1948 and Jake has been hired by Julius Berman (Harvey Kietel) to investigate the extra-marital affairs of his wife Kitty (Meg Tilly). But when Jake arranges for Berman to catch Kitty in the act, Berman draws a gun and shoots his wife's lover, thereby embroiling the unwitting Gittes in a very complex piece of Los Angeles chicanery involving oil deals, orange groves and an incident in the detective's own past. 'Terms of Endearment' (1983) revolves around the volatile relationship between the over-bearing Aurora (Shirley MacLaine) and Emma (Debra Winger), the daughter who cannot wait to escape her clutches. The story covers 30 years, and ranges from Emma's late-teens, her marriage to Flap Horton (Jeff Daniels), Aurora's difficulties facing her new role as a grandmother, and her relationship with Garrett Breedlove (Nicholson), an ex-astronaut who is constantly searching for excitement in his life. The story then moves toward a tragic, tear-jerking conclusion, as Emma discovers that she has cancer. Finally, in 'Heartburn' (1986), Rachel Samstat (Meryl Streep) and Mark Forman (Nicholson) meet at a friend's wedding. They fall in love, get married and all is seemingly fine until she discovers that whilst she has been pregnant he has been having an affair.

Director: Roman Polanski
Director: Jack Nicholson
Director: James L. Brooks
Director: Mike Nichols
Producer: Robert Evans
Producer: Harold Schneider
Producer: James L. Brooks
Producer: Mike Nichols
Producer: Robert Greenhut
Writer: Robert Towne
Writer: James L. Brooks
Writer: Nora Ephron
Music: Jerry Goldsmith
Music: Van Dyke Parks
Music: Michael Gore
Music: Carly Simon
Actor: Jack Nicholson
Actor: Faye Dunaway
Actor: John Huston
Actor: Perry Lopez
Actor: John Hillerman
Actor: Bruce Glover
Actor: Darell Zwerling
Actor: Diane Ladd
Actor: Burt Young
Actor: Roman Polanski
Actor: Harvey Keitel
Actor: Meg Tilly
Actor: Madeleine Stowe
Actor: Eli Wallach
Actor: Ruben Blades
Actor: Frederic Forrest
Actor: David Keith
Actor: Richard Farnsworth
Actor: Tracey Walter
Actor: Shirley MacLaine
Actor: Debra Winger
Actor: Danny DeVito
Actor: Jeff Daniels
Actor: John Lithgow
Actor: Bobo Lewis
Actor: Betty King
Actor: Lisa Hart Carroll
Actor: Huckleberry Fox
Actor: Shane Sherwin
Actor: Meryl Streep
Actor: Maureen Stapleton
Actor: Stockard Channing
Actor: Karen Akers
Actor: Milos Forman
Actor: Joanna Gleason
Actor: Steven Hill
Actor: Anna Maria Horsford
Actor: Richard Masur
Actor: Catherine O'Hara
Actor: Mercedes Ruehl
Actor: Yakov Smirnoff
Actor: Kevin Spacey