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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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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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.
Jun 29, 2015 · Five Easy Pieces is the very definition of a character study, and one of the best American cinema has produced. Nicholson’s Dupea embodies the self-destructive dissatisfaction that was common to a lot of movie characters in the late 1960s and early 1970s, but his unhappiness resonates more, because he isn’t the kind of person that usually ...
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.
Five Easy Pieces (1970) is a moody, incisive, thoughtful character study of an alienated, misfit drifter, outcast and non-committal drop-out. The existential, off-beat road movie and thoughtful, episodic and moody character study was awarded Best Picture honors from the New York Film Critics Circle, and established Jack Nicholson, soon after ...
