Five Easy Pieces

Five Easy Pieces
by Bob Rafelson

Five Easy Pieces
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Actor: Billy Green Bush, Fannie Flagg, Jack Nicholson, Karen Black, Sally Struthers
Director: Bob Rafelson
Brand: Sony
Cinematographer: L?szl? Kov?cs
Producer: Bob Rafelson
Writer: Bob Rafelson
Producer: Bert Schneider
Producer: Harold Schneider
Producer: Richard Wechsler
Writer: Carole Eastman
DVD: 2 Sides, Region Code 1
Audio: English (Original Language), Dolby Digital 2.0 Mono; English (Subtitled); Spanish (Subtitled); Portuguese (Subtitled); Georgian (Subtitled); Chinese (Subtitled); Thai (Subtitled)
Format: Anamorphic, Closed-captioned, Color, DVD-Video, Full Screen, NTSC, Widescreen
Picture Format: Anamorphic Widescreen, 1.85:1
Running Time: 98 minutes
DVD Release Date: 1999-12-14
Audience Rating: R (Restricted)
Studio: Sony Pictures

Movie Reviews of Five Easy Pieces

Movie Review: Failed relationship: Father Son
Summary: 5 Stars

Jack Nicholson is superb in the role of a man who spent most of his life trying to be the musician his father wanted him to be and then decided to go in search of himself. The movie catches him working in an oil field and follows him as he goes home to see his father after a stroke. As a man who has been there and survived, I enjoyed the movie on several levels and would watch it again, however, my daughter, a drama major in her senior year at college, said "I don't get it." She does not know the face of over reaching parents who push their children too hard sometimes on a non-verbal level and do not know the crash that happens when the path is not right for the child.

Summary of Five Easy Pieces

Jack nicholson gives a tour de force performance in this riveting masterpiece. Special features: full screen or widescreen version mono sound subtitles: english spanish portuguese chinese korean and thia talent files and bonus theatrical trailer. Studio: Sony Pictures Home Ent Release Date: 12/21/2004 Starring: Jack Nicholson Sally Struthers Run time: 96 minutes Rating: R Director: Bob Rafelson
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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