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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.
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.
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.
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.
Rejecting his cultured upper-class background as a classical pianist, Robert Dupea (Jack Nicholson) opts for a blue-collar existence, working in a California oil field and spending time with his...
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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.
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.
Sep 2, 2024 · Five Easy Pieces is a 1970 film about a trashy oil rigger who returns home to comfort his dying father, where he is confronted with the past he ran away from: a successful career as a classical pianist. Directed by Bob Rafelson. Written by Carole Eastman and Bob Rafelson. He Rode The Fast Lane On The Road To Nowhere.
