Five Easy Pieces

Name: Five Easy Pieces
Genre: Drama
Released: 1970-09-12
Duration: 1 h 38 min
Rating: 7.4
Cast: Jack Nicholson, Karen Black, Susan Anspach, Lois Smith, Ralph Waite

He rode the fast lane on the road to nowhere.

Five Easy Pieces (1970)

Timing: 1:38 (98 min)

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Video for the film Five Easy Pieces — Five Easy Pieces (1970) ORIGINAL TRAILER [HD 1080p]

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Release date

1970-09-12

Country

United States

Production

Columbia Pictures, BBS Productions

Genre

Drama

Budget

$1 600 000

Box office

$18 099 091

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Director

Bob Rafelson

Actors

Jack Nicholson, Karen Black, Susan Anspach, Lois Smith, Ralph Waite, Billy Green Bush, Irene Dailey, Toni Basil, Lorna Thayer, Richard Stahl
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Scenario

Producer

Bob Rafelson, Richard Wechsler, Bert Schneider

Camera operator

László Kovács

Composer

Artist

Toby Carr Rafelson

Audition

Fred Roos

Editing

Christopher Holmes, Gerald Shepard
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Short description

Robert Dupea spends his days doing various odd jobs, drinking and womanizing until an encounter with his sister makes him revisit his past.

What's left behind the scenes

“Five Easy Pieces” is the title of a collection of pieces for beginning pianists.
In the original script, Katherine was supposed to be much older, but director Bob Rafelson made her a young beauty, the protégé of the character played by Ralph Waite (1928-2014).
The situation in the film's ending at the cafe, when Bobby sweeps all the dishes off the table after a quarrel with the waitress, was inspired by a real-life incident. Jack Nicholson did the same thing when his coffee was taken away and carried off, even though he had just arrived and placed an order. This happened because a group of actors who had been there for several hours were being kicked out of the cafe, and Nicholson had just entered and joined them.
A disagreement occurred between director Bob Rafelson and Jack Nicholson over how to play the scene where Bobby talks to his father. The director insisted that Nicholson's character burst into tears, but the actor flatly refused. Eventually, they decided not to complicate things and allowed Nicholson to play the scene as he saw fit, and at a certain point, the actor actually did cry. The scene was filmed in one take.