Five Easy Pieces R
He rode the fast lane on the road to nowhere.
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DVD Details
- Rated: R
- Run Time: 1 hours, 38 minutes
- Video: Color
- Encoding: Region 1 (USA & Canada)
- Released: June 30, 2015
- Originally Released: 1970
- Label: Criterion Collection
Performers, Cast and Crew:
Starring | Jack Nicholson & Karen Black | |
Performer: | Susan Anspach, Sally Struthers, Billy Green Bush, Fannie Flagg, Lois Smith, Helena Kallianiotes, Toni Basil, Lorna Thayer, Ralph Waite, William Challee, Irene Dailey & John P. Ryan | |
Directed by | Bob Rafelson | |
Edited by | Gerald S. Shepard & Christopher Holmes | |
Screenplay by | Carole Eastman | |
Story by | Bob Rafelson & Carole Eastman | |
Produced by | Bob Rafelson & Richard Wechsler | |
Director of Photography: | László Kovács | |
Executive Production by | Bert Schneider |
Entertainment Reviews:
Rating: 5/5 --
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.
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Radio Times
Rating: 3.5/4 --
A new kind of picture even for its era ... Jack Nicholson's performance still stands as one of his greatest.
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Creative Loafing
The movie has more anger than it knows what to do with; that's its fascination and its weakness, too.
New Yorker
Rating: 3/5 --
Gritty '70s drama about alienation has sex, cursing.
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Common Sense Media
Nicholson gives a galvanizing performance as a drifter who knows no tribe of his own, an updated anti-hero seething with self-loathing and discontent.
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The ARTery
Rating: 5/5 --
A key turn-of-the-decade film, with Nicholson railing against waitresses and barking at noisy dogs as Rafelson observes seedily picturesque roadside America.
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Empire Magazine
A very modern film. Elliptical, absurdist, harshly humorous, convulsively lyrical.
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Village Voice
Product Description:
FIVE EASY PIECES is one of the most notable collaborations between Jack Nicholson and director Bob Rafelson, with Nicholson in an outstanding performance as Bobby Dupea. In the film, Rafelson and Nicholson capture the difficult, awkward life of a gifted man who hasn't discovered a way to fully express his talent or found his place in the world--and maybe never will.
Bobby is a classic misfit--disillusioned about being a musician, unhappy as an oil rigger, and unable to make a commitment to his girlfriend, Rayette (ubiquitous '70s starlet Karen Black), who hopes for marriage. When he visits his family home on Puget Sound after a long absence, things don't get better. Bobby hates the repressive atmosphere: his brother is unbearable, his father can't speak, and his sister is involved with his father's supercilious male nurse. When Bobby sets his sights on his brother's fiancée, Catherine Van Ost (movingly played by the beautiful Susan Anspach), things seem to be getting better--that is, until Rayette arrives and Bobby realizes he is caught in a collision between his two lives. The film features characteristically gorgeous cinematography from Laszlo Kovaks and a soundtrack that skillfully offsets Tammy Wynette with Chopin. FIVE EASY PIECES is a riveting American story about a former musical ingénue whose gift becomes a burden to him as he grapples with the implications of his choices in work, relationships, and family.
Bobby is a classic misfit--disillusioned about being a musician, unhappy as an oil rigger, and unable to make a commitment to his girlfriend, Rayette (ubiquitous '70s starlet Karen Black), who hopes for marriage. When he visits his family home on Puget Sound after a long absence, things don't get better. Bobby hates the repressive atmosphere: his brother is unbearable, his father can't speak, and his sister is involved with his father's supercilious male nurse. When Bobby sets his sights on his brother's fiancée, Catherine Van Ost (movingly played by the beautiful Susan Anspach), things seem to be getting better--that is, until Rayette arrives and Bobby realizes he is caught in a collision between his two lives. The film features characteristically gorgeous cinematography from Laszlo Kovaks and a soundtrack that skillfully offsets Tammy Wynette with Chopin. FIVE EASY PIECES is a riveting American story about a former musical ingénue whose gift becomes a burden to him as he grapples with the implications of his choices in work, relationships, and family.
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- Sales Rank: 65,163
- UPC: 715515149211
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