Movie
1970
Five Easy Pieces is a 1970 American road drama film directed by Bob Rafelson, written by Rafelson and Carole Eastman, 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…
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*This publication was also writen in* SPANISH *and* PORTUGUESE . IMDb Synopsis: *Robert Dupea is a former pianist who renounced his privileged life to pursue his own path. But when confronted with an unexpected return to his roots, far from the city where he currently lives, he ends up being "seduced" by the past he left behind when revisiting his family.* The 1970s are undoubtedly one of the greatest decades in cin…More
If there is a single genre emblematic of the New Hollywood era, it is the road film—a cinematic form that mirrored the existential wanderlust and societal disillusionment of post-1960s America. Few actors embody this movement’s spirit as indelibly as Jack Nicholson, whose meteoric rise to stardom in the early 1970s was cemented by his role in Bob Rafelson’s *Five Easy Pieces* (1970). A quintessential road movie, the…More
