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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.
- $1.6 million
- September 12, 1970
- Bob Rafelson, Richard Wechsler
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.
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- Drama
- Bob Rafelson
- 1970-09-12
Mar 16, 2003 · "Five Easy Pieces" proved in 1970 that he was a great actor and a star. This is the film, more than 10 years into his career, where he flowered as a screen presence, as Jack the lad, the outsider, capable of anger, sarcasm, self-pity, also capable of tenderness and grief, ready for violence but not very good at it.
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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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- Jack Nicholson
Summaries. 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. Robert Dupea has given up his promising career as a concert pianist and is now working in oil fields. He lives together with Rayette, who's a waitress in a diner.
Reviews. Five Easy Pieces. Roger Ebert January 01, 1970. Tweet. Now streaming on: Powered by JustWatch. The title of "Five Easy Pieces" refers not to the women its hero makes along the road, for there are only three, but to a book of piano exercises he owned as a child.
Film Details. Awards. Articles & Reviews. Quotes. Trivia. Notes. Brief Synopsis. A classical pianist who's dropped out of society returns to the family he deserted. Cast & Crew. Read More. Bob Rafelson. Director. Jack Nicholson. Robert Eroica Dupea. Karen Black. Rayette Dipesto. Lois Smith. Partita Dupea. Susan Anspach. Catherine Van Ost.
