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Five easy pieces [videorecording (DVD)] / a film by Bob Rafelson.

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Criterion Collection, 2015.

Gifted persons -- Drama.

Pianists -- Drama.

Social classes -- Drama.

Criterion collection ; 546.

Video Difference legacy collection.

Alternate title:

5 easy pieces [videorecording (DVD)]

America lost and found [videorecording (DVD)] : the BBS story. Five easy pieces

[videorecording (DVD)] /

DVD special ed.

1 videodisc (98 min.) : Dolby digital mono. sd., col. ; 12 cm. + 1 folded sheet insert.

Originally released as a motion picture in 1970.

Special features: Audio commentary by director Bob Rafelson and interior designer Toby Rafelson ; Soul searching in "Five easy pieces," a 2009 video piece with Rafelson ; BBStory, a 2009 documentary about the legendary film company BBS Productions, with Rafelson, actors Jack Nicholson, Karen Black, and Ellen Burstyn, directors Peter Bogdanovich and Henry Jaglom and others ; documentary from 2009 about BBS featuring critic David Thomson and historian Douglas Brinkley ; audio excerpts from a 1976 AFI interview with Rafelson ; theatrical trailer and teasers ; PLUS: an essay entitled "The Solitude" by critic Kent Jones.

A selection of the National Film Registry, 2000.

English (SDH) subtitles for the deaf and hard of hearing.

Screenplay by Adrien Joyce ; directed by Bob Rafelson.

Jack Nicholson with Karen Black, Suan Anspach, Billy "Green" Bush, Fannie Flagg and Sally Ann Stuthers.

"Following Jack Nicholson's breakout supporting turn in Easy Rider, director Bob Rafelson devised a powerful leading role for the new star in the searing character study Five Easy Pieces. Nicholson plays the now iconic cad Bobby Dupea, a shiftless thirtysomething oil rigger and former piano prodigy immune to any sense of responsibility, who returns to his upper-middle-class childhood home, blue-collar girlfriend (Nashville's Karen Black, in an Oscar-nominated role) in tow, to see his estranged ailing father. Moving in its simplicity and gritty in its textures, Five Easy Pieces is a lasting example of early 1970s American alienation."--Container.

Golden Globe Award: Best Supporting Actress, Karen Black (tied with Maureen Stapleton for Airport), 1970.

Films for the hearing impaired.

Nicholson, Jack.

Black, Karen, 1939-2013.

Struthers, Sally.

Criterion Collection (Firm)

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