Five Easy Pieces
FIVE EASY PIECESÂ (15)
D:Â Bob Rafelson
Columbia/BBS (Bob Rafelson & Richard
Wechsler)
USA 🇺🇸 1970
96 mins
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Drama
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W:Â Adrien Joyce & Bob
Rafelson
DP: Laszlo Kovacs
Ed: Gerald Shepard & Christopher Holmes
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Jack Nicholson (Robert Eroica
Dupea), Karen Black (Rayette Dipesto), Billy Green Bush (Elton), Fannie Flagg (Stoney), Sally Struthers (Betty), Marlena MacGuire (Twinky)
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Jack Nicholson's follow up performance to his scene
stealing turn in Easy Rider sees him play an aimless redneck who jilts both his pregnant mistress  and his brother's fiancée to hitchhike to nowhere in particular.
The final product is less a story of any real narrative
coherence but merely a collection of incedents and character studies, featuring a few scenes which must be categorised as classic movie moments, particularly the infamous diner
scene.
Jack Nicholson is fantastic, although it could be argued
that Karen Black's performance steals the movie from under his nose.
8/10
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