Five Easy Pieces
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 (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.
Special Features
- Restored high-definition digital transfer, supervised by director of photography László Kovács, with uncompressed monaural soundtrack on the Blu-ray edition
- Audio commentary by director Bob Rafelson and interior designer Toby Rafelson
- Soul Searching in "Five Easy Pieces," a 2009 video piece featuring Rafelson
- BBStory, a 2009 documentary about the legendary film company BBS Productions, with Rafelson; actors Jack Nicholson, Karen Black, and Ellen Burstyn; filmmakers 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
- Trailers and teasers
- English subtitles for the deaf and hard of hearing
- PLUS: An essay by critic Kent Jones
Collector's Sets
Collector's Set
Special Features
- Restored high-definition digital transfer, supervised by director of photography László Kovács, with uncompressed monaural soundtrack on the Blu-ray edition
- Audio commentary by director Bob Rafelson and interior designer Toby Rafelson
- Soul Searching in "Five Easy Pieces," a 2009 video piece featuring Rafelson
- BBStory, a 2009 documentary about the legendary film company BBS Productions, with Rafelson; actors Jack Nicholson, Karen Black, and Ellen Burstyn; filmmakers 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
- Trailers and teasers
- English subtitles for the deaf and hard of hearing
- PLUS: An essay by critic Kent Jones
Cast
- Jack Nicholson
- Robert Eroica Dupea
- Karen Black
- Rayette Dipesto
- Billy “Green” Bush
- Elton
- Fannie Flagg
- Stoney
- Sally Ann Struthers
- Betty
- Marlena MacGuire
- Twinky
- Richard Stahl
- Recording engineer
- Lois Smith
- Partita Dupea
- Helena Kallianiotes
- Palm Apodaca
- Toni Basil
- Terry Grouse
- Lorna Thayer
- Waitress
- Susan Anspach
- Catherine Van Oost
- Ralph Waite
- Carl Fidelio Dupea
- William Challee
- Nicholas Dupea
- John Ryan
- Spicer
- Irene Dailey
- Samia Glavia
Credits
- Director
- Bob Rafelson
- Produced by
- Bob Rafelson
- Produced by
- Richard Wechsler
- Screenplay
- Carole Eastman (as Adrien Joyce)
- Story
- Bob Rafelson
- Story
- Carole Eastman (as Adrien Joyce)
- Executive producer
- Bert Schneider
- Director of photography
- Lázló Kovács
- Interior designer
- Toby Rafelson
- Associate producer
- Harold Schneider
- Film editors
- Christopher Holmes
- Film editors
- Gerald Shepard
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