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Five Easy Pieces
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7.1Robert Dupea spends his days doing various odd jobs, drinking and womanizing until an encounter with his sister makes him revisit his past.
Cast
- Jack Nicholson as Robert Eroica Dupea
- Karen Black as Rayette Dipesto
- Susan Anspach as Catherine Van Oost
- Lois Smith as Partita Dupea
- Ralph Waite as Carl Fidelio Dupea
- Billy Green Bush as Elton
Themes
- musician
- diner
- road trip
- hitchhiker
- drifter
- class differences
- washington state
- oil field
- rebelliousness
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Key facts
- Directed by
- Bob Rafelson
- Screenplay by
- Adrien Joyce
- Story by
- Bob Rafelson Adrien Joyce
- Produced by
- Bob Rafelson Richard Wechsler
- Starring
- Jack Nicholson Karen Black Susan Anspach
- Cinematography
- László Kovács
- Edited by
- Christopher Holmes Gerald Shepard
- Production companies
- Five Easy Pieces Productions BBS Productions
- Distributed by
- Columbia Pictures
- Release dates
- September 11, 1970 ( 1970-09-11 ) ( New York Film Festival ) September 12, 1970 ( 1970-09-12 ) (New York)
- Running time
- 98 minutes
- Country
- United States
- Language
- English
- Budget
- $1.6 million
- Box office
- $18.1 million
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Encyclopedic overview
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".
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