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It was a bit odd seeing sweet Sally Struthers behave so 'naughty', but she played it well. I also loved the ranting hitchhiker. So many great actors! An angry young man who can't love himself has trouble relating to those who care about him, including his family. Shallow on the surface, he's actually a storm of emotions inside, having been unable to please his father who wanted him to have a music career as a pianist. This is a must-have for classic lovers.
Chrissy K. McVay - Author
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Jack Nicholson does some of his finest work in this quiet, thoughtful character study of a man who can never be satisfied with work, family, friends, lovers, music or anything else. He leaves a job to check on his ailing father, is unable to make amends with him, and does not grow any closer to his siblings in the process, though he has an affair with his brother's wife that goes nowhere. Karen Black shines as his ditsy but sweet girlfriend, whom he eventually abandons for good; his leaving his jacket behind in cold weather mirrors the coldness inside of him in one of the best and most effective film endings. This is a movie with plenty of 1970s zeitgeist, from the confrontation with the waitress to the two female hitch-hikers.
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...but 'cause I'm getting away from things that get bad if I stay."
"Five Easy Pieces" (1970) directed by Bob Rafelson - is one of the real gems that needs to be seen and admired but is sadly not known enough to the viewers. The film is build as a road movie around Bobby Dupea, a middle-class intellectual turned truck driver and working in the oil fields. Playing a once promising pianist (his full name is Robert "Eroica" Dupea - he was named after Ludwig van Beethoven's Symphony No. 3, Op. 55, The Eroica Symphony - no more, no less) who chose to abandon his musical family ("Five Easy Pieces" refers to five pieces by Chopin), Jack Nicholson has rarely been better. It is one of his performances that I truly love and admire. If you only saw Nicholson in his later films where he often plays the same character over again, the combination of Daryl Van Horne and Col. Nathan R. Jessep, find "Five Easy Pieces". Bobby's fully shaded character with its outbursts of emotions, insecurities, and poignancy of wasted intelligence is wonder to follow. Karen Black as Bobby's girlfriend Rayette, Tammy Wynett's admiring waitress, is outstanding. Laszlo Kovack's cinematography is gorgeous. The chicken - salad scene in a diner is a classic and pure delight to watch.
4.5/5
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It's a little slow and hard to follow but has some of Jack's best early work. Especially the chicken sandwich.
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I knew nothing about FIVE EASY PIECES beyond the famous diner tantrum scene that is often shown on movie specials. Yet from the soundtrack of the opening scene featuring Tammy Wynette singing STAND BY YOUR MAN I was involved in this absorbing character study. We first meet Jack Nicholson's Bobby in Bakersfield, California where he is working in the oil fields and living with his beautiful but silly diner waitress girlfriend Rayette. At first Bobby seems like a typical blue collar laborer hanging out at the bowling alley and being none to nice to his loyal and possibly pregnant girlfriend. Soon we find out he comes from a much more privileged and cultured background as he and Rayette travel to an island in Washington state where Bobby was raised. There we meet Bobby's mute stroke victim father whom we guess was once a musical tyrant, his eccentric but sweet pianist sister, his physically awkward violinist brother, his father's nurse and his brother's musician girlfriend. This film is all about relationships and character development and is well acted as is vital in such films. Look for several 1970's television stars in supporting parts including Sally Struthers playing a bowling alley bimbo, Fannie Flagg a trailer park housewife and Ralph Waite as Bobby's literally stiff necked brother. The ending of the film is surprising yet fits with Bobby's pattern of choosing the "easy piece".
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