USA,
1970, 98 min
Directed by:
Bob RafelsonScreenplay:
Carole EastmanCinematography:
László KovácsCast:
Jack Nicholson, Karen Black, Billy Green Bush, Fannie Flagg, Lois Smith, Sally Struthers, Susan Anspach, John P. Ryan, Ralph Waite, Toni Basil (more)Plots(1)
Jack 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. (Criterion)
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