Five Easy Pieces - Original Trailer 1970

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January 27, 2009

A disaffected man seeks a sense of identity in one of the key films of Hollywood's 1970s New Wave. Once a promising pianist from a family of classical musicians, Bobby Eroica Dupea (Jack Nicholson, in his first major starring role) leads a blue-collar life as an oil rigger, living with needy waitress girlfriend Rayette (Karen Black) and bowling with their friends Elton (Billy "Green" Bush) and Stoney (Fannie Flagg). Feeling suffocated by responsibilities, Bobby seeks out his sister, Tita (Lois Smith), and, discovering that his father is gravely ill, he reluctantly heads back to the patrician family compound in Puget Sound with a pregnant Rayette in tow. After a road trip featuring a harangue from hitchhiker Palm (Helena Kallianiotes) about filth, and Bobby's ill-fated attempt to make a menu substitution in a diner, he tucks Rayette away in a motel before heading to the house. There Bobby seduces his uptight brother Carl's cultured fiancée, Catherine (Susan Anspach), but Rayette shows up unexpectedly. As Rayette's crassness collides with the snobbery of the Dupea circle, Bobby loses patience with both sides. After trying to reconcile with his mute father, Bobby departs, unwilling to give in to either destiny. Director Bob Rafelson and screenwriter Adrien Joyce (aka Carole Eastman) used the creative control afforded by the low budget to craft a European-influenced character study, catching a cultural mood of anomie and resentment as it was embodied in Bobby. Neither older generation nor hippie, Bobby fits in nowhere, and his desire for independence conflicts with his emotional emptiness. Nicholson's nuanced performance of simmering frustration resonated with 1970 audiences caught between Nixon's "silent majority" and the troubled counterculture; a substantial hit, Five Easy Pieces was nominated for several Oscars, including Best Picture and Best Actor, and established Nicholson as a star. Offering no "easy" answers to Bobby's existential crisis, Five Easy Pieces is one of the pre-eminent films in the early-'70s cycle of alienated American art movies, as even the fantasy of rebellion is reduced to merely running away.

Jack Nicholson - Robert Eroica Dupea
Karen Black - Rayette Dipesto
Lois Smith - Partita Dupea
Susan Anspach - Catherine Van Ost
Billy Green Bush - Elton
Helena Kallianiotes - Palm Apodaca
Fannie Flagg - Stoney
William Challee - Nicholas Dupea
Toni Basil - Terry Grouse
Sally Struthers - Betty
John Ryan - Spicer
Irene Dailey - Samia
Lorna Thayer - Waitress
Richard Stahl - Recording Engineer
Mariena MacGuire - Twinky
Ralph Waite - Carl Fidelio Dupea

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Can't Wait for the 60 Second Bunnies Version of "Five Easy Pieces"!

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Intelligent film.

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Not Jack's best but always in the conversation.

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my favorite jack nicholson film.

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One of the five greatest movies ever made, and nothing ever topped the "chicken salad sandwich, hold the bread" scene in the diner.

This is a masterpiece!

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it's hold the chicken, dumbass

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chill out

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That's hold the chicken, if ya know what I'm saying Doc.

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Nicholson s HIGH TIDE !

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One of the girls in the back seat at 1:11 is Toni Basil best known in Saturday Night Live and the song "Mickey".

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