Five Easy Pieces

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Originally released as a motion picture in 1970.
Issued as part of a 9-DVD boxed set with: Head; Easy rider (2 discs: feature film and supplemental material); Drive, he said; A safe place; The last picture show (2 discs: feature film and supplemental material); The king of Marvin Gardens.
DVD special ed. features include: New, restored high-definition digital transfer, supervised by director of photography László Kovács; audio commentary featuring director Bob Rafelson and interior designer Toby Rafelson; "Soul searching in "Five easy pieces", a 2009 video piece with Bob Rafelson; "BBStory" a 2009 documentary about the BBS era, with Rafelson, actors Jack Nicholson, Karen Black and Ellen Burstyn and directors Peter Bogdanovich and Henry Jaglom, among others; audio excerpts from a 1976 AFI interview with Refalson.
Jack Nicholson, Karen Black, Susan Anspach, Lois Smith, Ralph Waite.
Nicholson plays the now iconic cad Bobby Dupea, a shiftless thirty-something oil rigger and former piano prodigy immune to any sense of romantic or familial responsibility, who returns to his childhood home to see his ailing, estranged father, blue-collar girlfriend (Karen Black) in tow.
DVD, widescreen (16:9, 1.85:1) presentation; Dolby Digital 5.1, mono.

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Classic Nicholson submitted by rmhawkins on June 13, 2014, 8:23pm This film pulled me in from the first viewing. The performances are undeniable!