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.

Down on his luck in 1990 and forced to sleep on the couch of a wannabe producer, Huston’s Jack Hussar still exudes enough charm to seduce his host’s sexy young sister (Sienna Miller) and win enough money in a poker game to finance a film he’s planning to shoot in Africa.

Based very loosely on an early short story by Leo Tolstoy, “Two Jacks” has a much less interesting second act, which takes places after Jack’s death, when his vastly less charming son, Jack Jr. (Danny’s nephew Jack Huston), is hustling to make his own directorial debut.

Though this contemporary segment is said to take place 20 years after Jack Sr.’s adventure, 31-year-old Miller’s character is now played by 69-year-old Jacqueline Bisset. She agrees to let the son stay with her — and he, of course, seduces her daughter.