Five Easy Pieces
Five Easy Pieces
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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.

Bob Rafelson...USA...1970,,,98 minutes

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  | JohnH#1

"Moodiest man alive" says :Rayette. She's too charitable. One of the most unappealing characters I've ever seen on film. Supporting cast tries valiantly, but to paraphrase Oscar Levant's quip about George Gershwin, "A movie with Jack Nicholson is a Jack Nicholson movie". Given Facets rating system, I have to give Five easy pieces a three, but I didn't like it. I was fascinated, but I wouldn't want to sit through it again.

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