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Five Easy Pieces
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Five Easy Pieces is a 1970 American drama film directed and produced by Bob Rafelson, who also co-wrote the screenplay with Carole Eastman. The cast includes Jack Nicholson, Karen Black, Fannie Flagg, and Sally Struthers. Filmed in California and British Columbia, the story is set in California and Washington. It was distributed by Columbia Pictures and Netflix, with Bert Schneider serving as executive producer.
The film received several accolades, including the New York Film Critics Circle Award for Best Film and Best Director, the Golden Globe Award for Best Supporting Actress, and the National Society of Film Critics Award for Best Supporting Actress. It was nominated for Academy Awards for Best Picture, Best Actor, Best Supporting Actress, and Best Writing, Original Screenplay.
Five Easy Pieces is categorized as a road movie within the New Hollywood movement. Its runtime is listed as 96 minutes in some sources and 98 minutes in others. The production had a budget of $1,600,000 and generated revenue of $18,099,091. Critical ratings include an average of 7.081 from 590 votes on TMDb and a rating of 7.3 from 44,508 votes on IMDb.
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Film · TMDB
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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Wikidata facts
- Instance of
- film
- Part of
- National Film Registry
- Genre
- road movie
- Country of origin
- United States
- Original language
- English language
- Movement
- New Hollywood
- Creator
- Yvonne Rainer
- Collection
- Museum of Modern Art
- Director
- Bob Rafelson
- Screenwriter
- Bob Rafelson
- Cast member
- William Challee
- Producer
- Bob Rafelson
- Cinematographer
- László Kovács
- Narrative location
- Washington
- Filming location
- British Columbia
- Duration
- 96
- FilmAffinity ID
- 482225
- Distribution format
- video on demand
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- publication date
- 1971-03-25
- title
- Five Easy Pieces
- executive producer
- Bert Schneider
- distributed by
- Netflix
- Commons category
- Five Easy Pieces
- assessment
- Bechdel test
- review score
- 85/100
- capital cost
- 1600000
- box office
- 18099091
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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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