Five Easy Pieces (1970)

Directed by

Bob Rafelson

Genre

drama film, road movie

Country

United States

Runtime

1h 36m

Rated

R

Rating

7.1 of 10 from 603 voters

Elsewhere

IMDb

How it feels

A former piano prodigy now works on an oil rig and drifts through life. When he learns his father is dying, he travels to his family home with his unsophisticated girlfriend. The film follows his uncomfortable return to a world he left behind.

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What happens

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 inducted into the National Film Registry of the Library of Congress in 2000 upon being deemed "culturally, historically, or aesthetically significant". (from Wikipedia, CC BY-SA)

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