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Five Easy Pieces

1970 · Film · 98 min

  • Drama

Plot

Robert Dupea spends his days doing various odd jobs, drinking and womanizing until an encounter with his sister makes him revisit his past.

About Five Easy Pieces

Five Easy Pieces is a 1970 American road drama film directed by Bob Rafelson, written by Rafelson and Carole Eastman (as Adrien Joyce), and starring Jack Nicholson, Karen Black, Susan Anspach, Lois Smith, and Ralph Waite. The film tells the story of surly oil rig worker Bobby Dupea (Nicholson), whose rootless blue-collar existence belies his privileged youth as a piano prodigy. When Bobby learns that his father is dying, he travels to his family home in Washington to visit him, taking along his uncouth girlfriend (Black). The film was nominated for four Academy Awards and five Golden Globe Awards, and was selected for preservation in the National Film Registry of the Library of Congress in 2000 upon being deemed "culturally, historically, or aesthetically significant".

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Cast

  • Jack NicholsonRobert Eroica Dupea
  • Karen BlackRayette Dipesto
  • Susan AnspachCatherine Van Oost
  • Lois SmithPartita Dupea
  • Ralph WaiteCarl Fidelio Dupea
  • Billy Green BushElton
  • Irene DaileySamia Glavia
  • Toni BasilTerry Grouse
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