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Five Easy Pieces

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Five Easy Pieces

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Drama starring Jack Nicholson and Karen Black. Robert Eroica Dupea, drifting son of a middle-class family of musicians, works on oil rigs and construction sites to earn money. His casual attitude extends to Rayette, the waitress he currently lives with and mistreats. Reluctantly, he takes her along on a visit to his family home.

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A star rating of 5 out of 5.

Adrian Turner

Take a look at this accomplished drama and you'll see why Jack Nicholson became a Hollywood superstar. He's lean and hungry, fresh from Easy Rider and in cahoots with several of the best indie film-makers of the time: director Bob Rafelson, producer Bert Schneider and writers Carole Eastman and Robert Towne. Nicholson is simply magnetic as Bobby Dupea, emotionally repressed and unable to adjust to the two worlds he inhabits among blue-collar oilmen and the family home, a sort of Ibsen commune devoted to maths and Mozart. The film, superbly directed by Rafelson, shifts the late 1960s hippy drop-out genre into the Ingmar Bergman class: it's cerebral, yes, but also moving and witty. It also has a classic scene when Nicholson orders a sandwich at a diner and asks the waitress to hold the chicken and just serve him the toast.

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Cast

rolenameRobert Eroica DupeaJack NicholsonRayette DipestoKaren BlackCatherine Van OostSusan AnspachPartita DupeaLois SmithEltonBilly Green BushStoneyFannie FlaggCarl Fidelio DupeaRalph WaitePalm ApodacaHelena KallianiotesTerry GrouseToni BasilBettySally Ann StruthersTwinkyMarlena MacguireNicholas DupeaWilliam ChalleeSpicerJohn P RyanWaitressLorna ThayerRecording EngineerRichard StahlSarnia GlaviaIrene Dailey

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rolenameDirectorBob Rafelson

Details

Theatrical distributor

Park Circus

Released on

2010-08-13

Languages

English

Guidance

Contains swearing and nudity.

Available on

video and DVD

Formats

Colour

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