- Actors: Jack Nicholson, Karen Black, Billy Green Bush, Fannie Flagg, Sally Struthers
- Directors: Bob Rafelson
- Format: Import, NTSC
- Language: English
- Number of discs: 1
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- Average Customer Review: 4.5 out of 5 stars See all reviews (36 customer reviews)
- ASIN: B00004D0GY
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4.0 out of 5 stars
NOT Texas!,
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This review is from: Five Easy Pieces (DVD)
Why does everyone say Nicholson's character is working in the "Texas" oil fields? It's the California oilfields (Bakersfield, Shafter California).Good character study, excellent acting. and the chicken salad scene is classic Nicholson.
1 of 1 people found the following review helpful
5.0 out of 5 stars
A Great Film,
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This review is from: Five Easy Pieces (DVD)
In a story of two worlds and what happens when they collide, Jack Nicholson gives a performance that should have won an Academy Award. As Bobby Dupea, Nicholson abandons his privilaged life for that of an aimless drifter- something he will eventually apologize for. He goes from being a talented musician to working as an oil rigger but a family illness will bring him back to his affluent roots and it is here that he must decide the course the rest of his life will take. And while all the perfomances are excellent, it is Nicholson that keeps us spellbound. In a long career, he has played many facinating characters but in my humble opinion, it is as the wasted talent Bobby Dupea that Nicholson shines the brightest.
5.0 out of 5 stars
Two of Jack's best ever tantrum scenes,
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This review is from: Five Easy Pieces (VHS Tape)
Two of Jack Nicholson's best ever tantrum scenesIf you've seen this movie, you probably know what I'm talking about. There's one scene in which Nicholson REALLY doesn't want to invite his ditsy girlfriend (Karen Black) to come along to the family home to visit his dying father - and when he realizes he can't get out of it, he sits in his car and comes unglued. Then he get out, goes back inside and very calmly says, "Rayette, you wanna come with me?" The other one is in a roadside café when the laconic waitress won't alter the menu selections by one jot - and again he comes unglued as only Nicholson can do when he's at the top of his performance, which he usually is. But the rest of this movie is dark, dark, dark - a mood piece of a dysfunctional family. Nicholson plays a wounded outcast, a former piano prodigy who has been estranged from his father for years, spending his time as an oil worker in Texas, shacking up with his annoying girlfriend. When he learns his father is dying in Washington State, he sets off for 'home.' Most of the rest of the film is an odyssey, a road trip back to the family mansion and all he's left behind: his attachments, his family, his problems, his fears, and his failures. Five Easy Pieces became a classic almost as soon as it was released. Don't miss it.
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