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Sep 12, 1970 · Five Easy Pieces: Directed by Bob Rafelson. With Jack Nicholson, Karen Black, Billy Green Bush, Fannie Flagg. A dropout from upper-class America picks up work along the way on oil rigs when his life isn't spent in a squalid succession of bars, motels, and other points of interest.
Five Easy Pieces is a 1970 American drama film directed by Bob Rafelson, written by Carole Eastman (as Adrien Joyce) and Rafelson, and starring Jack Nicholson, Karen Black, Susan Anspach, Lois Smith, and Ralph Waite.
Mar 16, 2003 · "Five Easy Pieces" was a fusion of the personal cinema of John Cassavetes and the new indie movement that was tentatively emerging. It was, you could say, the first Sundance film. Nicholson was not the film's only discovery.
An important touchstone of the New Hollywood era, Five Easy Pieces is a haunting portrait of alienation that features one of Jack Nicholson's greatest performances. Read Critics Reviews
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Jan 17, 2020 · Five Easy Pieces is a hugely influential and acclaimed film that can sometimes get lost in the discussion of great American films. The 1970 drama introduced Jack Nicholson as a leading man, playing a former concert pianist now living a blue-collar life.
Moving in its simplicity and gritty in its textures, Five Easy Pieces is a lasting example of early 1970s American alienation. Following Jack Nicholson’s breakout supporting turn in Easy Rider, director Bob Rafelson devised a powerful leading role for the new star in the searing character study Five Easy Pieces.
When Rayette becomes pregnant and his friend Elton is arrested and sent to jail for having robbed a gas station a year earlier, Bobby quits his job and leaves for Los Angeles where his older sister, Partita (Lois Smith), also a pianist, is making a recording.
What is "Five Easy Pieces" about? Trained as a concert pianist, Robert "Bobby" Dupea ( Jack Nicholson) turned his back on his rich, intellectual family and on a promising career in order to work in the oil fields, go bowling, drink beer with his friend Elton ( Billy Green Bush ), and take up with Rayette ( Karen Black ), a not-so-bright waitress.
Somewhere between Hollywood and European arthouse cinema, between the twangy sounds of Tammy Wynette and the delicate piano of Fredrick Chopin, between blue-collar drudgery and upper-class conceit resides Bob Rafelson’s Five Easy Pieces, a landmark of counterculture filmmaking.
Five Easy Pieces, with its title ironically referring to a beginning pianist's manual of practice pieces, is a bleakly indelible thing of clashes and cacophonies and screams, especially the silent ones.
