Directed by:
Bob RafelsonScreenplay:
Carole EastmanCinematography:
László KovácsCast:
Jack Nicholson, Karen Black, Billy Green Bush, Fannie Flagg, Lois Smith, Sally Struthers, Susan Anspach, John P. Ryan, Ralph Waite, Toni Basil (more)Plots(1)
Jack 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 (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. (Criterion)
(more)Cast
Jack Nicholson
USA
Best movies:
One Flew over the Cuckoo's Nest (1975)
The Shining (1980)
The Departed (2006)
Karen Black
USA
Best movies:
Easy Rider (1969)
The Day of the Locust (1975)
Capricorn One (1977)
Billy Green Bush
USA
Best movies:
Alice Doesn't Live Here Anymore (1974)
The Jericho Mile (1979) (TV movie)
Five Easy Pieces (1970)
Fannie Flagg
USA
Best movies:
Grease (1978)
Fried Green Tomatoes (1991)
Five Easy Pieces (1970)
Lois Smith
USA
Best movies:
Falling Down (1993)
East of Eden (1955)
Minority Report (2002)
Sally Struthers
USA
Best movies:
The Getaway (1972)
Five Easy Pieces (1970)
Gilmore Girls: A Year in the Life (2016) (series)
Susan Anspach
USA
Best movies:
Play It Again, Sam (1972)
Misunderstood (1984)
Montenegro, or Pigs and Pearls (1981)
John P. Ryan
USA
Best movies:
The Right Stuff (1983)
Bound (1996)
Three O'Clock High (1987)
Ralph Waite
USA
Best movies:
Cool Hand Luke (1967)
Roots (1977) (series)
Cliffhanger (1993)
Toni Basil
USA
Best movies:
Easy Rider (1969)
Five Easy Pieces (1970)
Sweet Charity (1969)
Helena Kallianiotes
USA
Best movies:
Easy Rider (1969)
Five Easy Pieces (1970)
The Drowning Pool (1975)
William Challee
USA
Best movies:
The Glenn Miller Story (1954)
The Black Book (1949)
Cimarron (1960)
Lorna Thayer
USA
Best movies:
The Lusty Men (1952)
Skyjacked (1972)
Frankie & Johnny (1991)
Marlena MacGuire
Best movies:
Five Easy Pieces (1970)
Irene Dailey
USA
Best movies:
Five Easy Pieces (1970)
The Grissom Gang (1971)
No Way to Treat a Lady (1968)
Richard Stahl
USA
Best movies:
Columbo (1971) (series)
Overboard (1987)
Five Easy Pieces (1970)