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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.
Five Easy Pieces centers on Bobby Dupea, portrayed by Jack Nicholson, a disillusioned oil rigger and former piano prodigy, as he navigates personal and familial struggles. Directed by Bob Rafelson, the film captures Bobby's internal conflict between his blue-collar lifestyle and his privileged musical upbringing, set against the backdrop of ...
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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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.
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 we sense the boy, tormented and insecure, trapped inside the adult man, “Five Easy Pieces” becomes a masterpiece of heartbreaking intensity. At the outset, we meet only the man — played by Jack Nicholson with the same miraculous offhandedness that brought “ Easy Rider ” to life.
Directed by Bob Rafelson • 1970 • United States Starring Jack Nicholson, Karen Black. 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.
A man who shrugged off a potential life of wealth, Dupea drifts into work on an oil rig. When his father's health begins to fail, Dupea returns home where a clash of cultures ensues. Rafelson's focus is Nicholson's Dupea and how he surges through his life, inured to it all.
