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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 · A dropout from upper-class America works as an oil rig worker and drifts across the country with his girlfriend. He faces his estranged family and his own identity crisis in this Oscar-nominated film.
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- 1970-09-12
Oct 7, 2012 · Offering no "easy" answers to Bobby's existential crisis, Five Easy Pieces is one of the pre-eminent films in the early-'70s cycle of alienated American art movies, as even the fantasy of...
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Mar 16, 2003 · Jack Nicholson stars as Bobby Dupea, a rebellious and aimless man who returns to his family after his father's stroke. The film explores his identity crisis, his relationships, and his musical talent in a groundbreaking screenplay by Bob Rafelson and Carole Eastman.
Five Easy Pieces. 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 classic American film starring Jack Nicholson as Robert Eroica Dupea, a man who runs away from his past and his talent as a pianist. Ebert praises the film's intensity, realism, and ambiguity in his analysis of the character's journey.