Robert Dupea has given up his promising career as a concert pianist and is now working in oil fields. He lives together with Rayette, who's a waitress in a diner. When Robert hears from his sister that his father isn't well, he drives up to Washington to see him, taking Rayette with him. There he gets confronted with his rich, cultured family that he had left behind.... (Full plot summary below)
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Robert Dupea has given up his promising career as a concert pianist and is now working in oil fields. He lives together with Rayette, who's a waitress in a diner. When Robert hears from his sister that his father isn't well, he drives up to Washington to see him, taking Rayette with him. There he gets confronted with his rich, cultured family that he had left behind.
Leave your thoughts about Five Easy Pieces.
| Chicago Sun-TimesRoger EbertA masterpiece of heartbreaking intensity. |
| Radio TimesAdrian TurnerThe film, superbly directed by Rafelson, shifts the late 1960s hippy drop-out genre into the Ingmar Bergman class: it's cerebral, yes, but also moving and witty. |
| Chicago TribuneGene SiskelWhat is more striking about the film is that its secondary characters are also real. The acting appears to be non-acting. . . . Karen Black is a letter-perfect Rayette, and Lois Smith, as Robert's sister, gives the most sensitive small performance in the film. (Jack) Nicholson makes it all go. He proves he is more than a character actor with many scenes, especially the confrontation with his father. |
| Cinema SightWesley LovellAn American entry into the French New Wave starring a compelling Jack Nicholson. |
| Parallax ViewSean Axmaker[Jack] Nicholson helped redefine the leading man as a guy who doesn't have the answers but still swaggers through with the show of confidence and control of someone who does. |
| VarietyVariety StaffThe film's nervewracking quality is consistent with its content. Nicholson's performance is a remarkably varied and daring exploration of a complex character, equally convincing in its manic and sober aspects. |
| Time OutTom HuddlestonIt’s a film of stark, superbly judged and beautifully sustained contrasts, the soundtrack hopping confidently from Tammy Wynette to Chopin as Bobby and his waitress girlfriend Rayette (Karen Black) travel from the lusty, sun-baked south to the cerebral, rainswept north to pay final respects to Bobby’s dying father. |
| Journal and Courier (Lafayette, IN)Bob BloomNicholson at his angry, young man peak. Cynical, anti-authoritarian drama. |
| Northwest Herald (Crystal Lake, IL)Jeffrey WesthoffPerhaps the most overrated of the early '70s masterpieces. |
| Tim Dirks' The Greatest FilmsTim DirksFive Easy Pieces (1970) is a moody character study of an alienated, misfit drifter. It tells the story of a rough-neck California oil rigger |
