The title “Jake Squared” is exponentially insufficient, as Jake himself (Elias Koteas)
eventually acknowledges. Jake is a filmmaker frustrated with parenthood
and lonely after a divorce. What better way to solve this existential
crisis than to make a movie about his life?
The
setting will be a house party, with a significantly better-looking
actor (Mike Vogel) playing Jake. Yet somehow the attendees also include
Jake’s 17-year-old self (Kevin Railsback) and the 30- and 40-year-old
incarnations (both played by Mr. Koteas).
“Jake Squared” aspires to the tradition of “8 ½” and “Synecdoche, New York,”
phantasmagorical portraits of artists seeking perspective on their
lives. Unlike in those films, though, the conceit makes little sense.
Actors, ghosts and past selves intermingle. Jake watches impossible
footage on his iPhone.
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