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Five Easy Pieces
 
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Five Easy Pieces (1970)
Starring: Jack Nicholson, Karen Black Director: Bob Rafelson Rating
  4.3 out of 5 stars 70 customer reviews (70 customer reviews)  


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Product Details
  • Actors: Jack Nicholson, Karen Black, Billy Green Bush, Fannie Flagg, Sally Struthers
  • Directors: Bob Rafelson
  • Format: Color, NTSC
  • Language: English
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  • Number of tapes: 1
  • Studio: Sony Pictures
  • VHS Release Date: June 22, 1994
  • Run Time: 98 minutes
  • Average Customer Review: 4.3 out of 5 stars 70 customer reviews (70 customer reviews)
  • ASIN: 6302757096
  • Amazon.com Sales Rank: #6,155 in Video (See Bestsellers in Video)

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Editorial Reviews
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This subtle, existential character study of an emotionally distant outcast (Nicholson) forced to confront his past failures remains an intimate cornerstone of American '70s cinema. Written and directed with remarkable restraint by Bob Rafelson, the film is the result of a short-lived partnership between the filmmaker and Nicholson--the first was the zany formalist exercise, Head, while the equally impressive King of Marvin Gardens followed Five Easy Pieces. Quiet and full of long, controlled takes, this film draws its strength from the acutely detailed, nonjudgmental observations of its complex protagonist, Robert Dupea--an extremely crass and frustrated oil worker, and failed child pianist hiding from his past in Texas. Dupea spends his life drinking beer and sleeping with (and cheating on) his annoying but adoring Tammy Wynette-wannabe girlfriend, but when he learns that his father is dying in Washington State, he leaves. After the film transforms into a spirited road movie, and arrives at the eccentric upper-class Dupea family mansion, it becomes apparent that leaving is what Dupea does best--from his problems, fears, and those who love him. Nicholson gives a difficult yet masterful performance in an unlikable role, one that's full of ambiguity and requires violent shifts in acting style. Several sequences--such as his stopping traffic to play piano, or his famous verbal duels with a cranky waitress over a chicken-salad sandwich--are Nicholson landmarks. Yet, it's the quieter moments, when Dupea tries miserably to communicate and reconcile with his dying father, where the actor shows his real talent--and by extension, shows us the wounded little boy that lurks in the shell of the man Dupea has become. --Dave McCoy

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