Jake Gyllenhall needs a razor!!

Rating: 10/10 (3 April 2007)

A great movie, but Jake Gyllenhall annoyed me all through the film - not for his acting, which was just fine, but for that anachronistic 4-day beard that never changed one iota through some nine years of movie time, not from day to day, month to month, or year to year. Nor did he ever look a day older. Everyone else in the film ages but him! There he was at the SF Chronicle in 1969, a time (and place) when, if you wanted a straight job, you'd better be clean-shaved or neatly trimmed, yet he sports this scruffy look that didn't come into fashion for another 15 years or so. Perhaps he refused to shave - Google Gyllenhall and you'll find him with that same goofy beard. Prima Donna?