Five Easy Pieces

by Bob Rafelson (Director)

Other authorsJack Nicholson (Actor), Karen Black (Actor), Lois Smith (Actor), Susan Anspach (Actor), Bob Rafelson (Producer), Carole Eastman (Creator), Billy Green Bush (Actor), Richard Wechsler (Producer)
DVD, 2010

Call number

DVD-DRAMA 266

Collection

Publication

Columbia Pictures (2010)

Description

Character study of a talented pianist who has given up a promising career and now works on oil rigs. After 20 years he returns home to his father's deathbed perhaps to reconcile himself with his fear of failure and desire for greatness.

User reviews

LibraryThing member comfypants
A man with a rich family is angry about it.

2/4 (Indifferent).

[spoilers:] There's no development. It's just a static portrait of an asshole. The big finale is that he (literally) looks in a mirror, then goes on doing exactly what he was going to do from the start of the movie.

(Apr. 2022)
LibraryThing member capewood
2022 movie #202. 1970. I saw this when it originally came out. Still a powerful movie with a great performance by Nicholson. The film was nominated for Oscars for best picture, best actor and best supporting actress (Black) and screenplay. Didn't win any of them.
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