Five Easy Pieces

80
  • R
  • Genre(s):Drama
  • Release year: 1970
  • Running time: 98 min
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. Nicholson plays the now iconic cad Bobby Dupea, a shiftless...read more
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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. Nicholson plays the now iconic cad Bobby Dupea, a shiftless thirtysomething oil rigger and former piano prodigy immune to any sense of responsibility, who returns to his upper-middle-class childhood home, blue-collar girlfriend (Karen Black, in an Oscar-nominated role) in tow, to see his estranged, ailing father. Moving in its simplicity and gritty in its textures, Five Easy Pieces is a lasting example of early 1970s American alienation.

Original Release

09/12/1970

US Release

09/12/1970

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Cast

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Directors

Bob Rafelson

Writers

Bob Rafelson, Carole Eastman

Cast

Producers

Editors

Gerald Shepard, Christopher Holmes

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