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Five Easy Pieces

1970, Movie, 1h 38min

Following Jack Nicholson’s breakout supporting turn in EASY RIDER, director Bob Rafelson devised a powerful leading role for the new star in the searing character study FIVE EASY PIECES. Nicholson plays the now iconic cad Bobby Dupea, a shiftless thirtysomething oil rigger and former piano prodigy immune to any sense of responsibility, who returns to his upper-middle-class childhood home, blue-collar girlfriend (Karen Black, in an Oscar-nominated role) in tow, to see his estranged, ailing father. Moving in its simplicity and gritty in its textures, FIVE EASY PIECES is a lasting example of early 1970s American alienation.

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Reviews

Kasper Løvborg

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Compelling character portrait with nuanced work from Nicholson. Very 70s, very good.

4 years ago

Critic Kim Newman

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...this 1970s classic stars Jack Nicholson as Robert Eroica Dupea, scion of an uppercrust family of classical musicians, who has dropped out of high society and works South-Western oil-wells...

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Michael Thomsen

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En af Jack Nicholson's bedste tidlige roller. god film.

3 years ago

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A disillusioned former pianist, Robert Dupea, gives up his promising career and upper-class lifestyle to work on oil rigs and drift from one dead-end job to another. When his father falls ill, Robert returns home with his latest fling, Rayette, and meets his father's cultured and sophisticated friend, Catherine. As he reconnects with his family and grapples with his past, Robert must confront the emptiness of his itinerant lifestyle and decide what truly matters to him. Nominated for four Academy Awards, including Best Picture, Actor, Actress, and Original Screenplay, this powerful drama explores themes of identity, class, and the search for meaning in post-1960s America.