Five Easy Pieces details
| Format: | 15 DVD |
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| Starring: | Susan Anspach, Fannie Flagg, Karen Black, Lois Smith, Billy 'Green' Bush, Jack Nicholson |
| Director: | Bob Rafelson |
| Genre: | Drama - General |
| Studio: | UCA |
| Name | Discs | |
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Five Easy Pieces |
15 Feature |
DVD Information
| Run time: | 1 hour 34 minutes |
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| Rental release: | 08 Mar 2004 |
| Main languages: | English |
| Dubbed: | German, French, Spanish, Italian |
| Subtitles: | Arabic, Bulgarian, Czech, Danish, Dutch, English, Finnish, French, German, Greek, Hebrew, Hindi, Hungarian, Icelandic, Italian, Norwegian, Polish, Portuguese, Spanish, Swedish, Turkish |
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A little jewel
By mishi from Salisbury , 16 Mar 2005[Highly rated reviewer]
It seems ages since I've seen a film with Jack Nicholson that really appealed to me. It is a surprising and unusual film, well worth seeing especially because Nicholson gives a performance worthy of his talent.
Karen Black is excellent too. She has never received enough critical acclaim. An actress born well before her time, see the film and find out why her under-employed talent deserves a revisit.- Was this review helpful to you?
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(27)Fairlt watchable but ambled along to nowhere much.
By a customer , 14 Mar 2012Jack Nicholson is very watchable as ever but the film is very slow and nothing really develops either with the characters or the story.- Was this review helpful to you?
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They don't make them like this any more...
By RichPickings (167 reviews) from 'kin Bruges , 17 Feb 2012This rambles almost dangerously, at will, following its newly minted star Nicholson, as he wanders through the character's extended adolescence but it was the superb Karen Black that got the Oscar nomination. The performances burst with virtuosity, perhaps because they are given the room to breath. In this respect it flaunts its credentials as a New Wave film, with momentary pauses as precious as the explosions of rage. Also a road movie, the flaws in its characters are what drive it on, making it on occasion laugh out loud funny but its reflections are on the whole bitter and sad. Its cast range from a bestiary of weirdos to the highly strung, nuanced leads but we are always in the company of characters who absorb our attention and reward us with what they reveal. The scene of attempted reconciliation drew me back to this film 20 years after having first seen it but its the piano playing on the back of the truck that takes the biscuit. Top, top acting.- Was this review helpful to you?
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Endless movement.
By ADF (25 reviews) from Bury , 09 May 2010Jack Nicholson frenetically playing an out of tune piano on the back of a truck in an effort to work out the frustrations of being stuck in a traffic jam before being driven off still playing without even noticing he's moving is an image to remember. It also gives a revelation about the character he's playing - oil rig worker Bobby who also happens to be a brilliant classically trained pianist from a talented family. Up to that point you'd think this was someone frustrated with his lot because of the dead-end manual job he's doing. In fact that's his escape, but not a very satisfactory one. Throughout the film, Bobby shows himself to have an immense amount of anger and frustration in him that he only just keeps in control. Occasionally he loses it and gives us an insight into how deeply disaffected he is. Nicholson is brilliant. The film is superb - a character study (no forced plot - in fact not really much of a plot at all, which is refreshing) that doesn't feel the need to either give endless back story explanation or idea of future hope for its protagonist. The final scene shows that we have been but brief viewers of Bobby's life and that nothing is likely to change anytime soon for him. Wish they made more films like this today.- Was this review helpful to you?
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The story of going on the road to nowhere...
By a customer from Orpington , 18 Apr 2010THIS REVIEW CONTAINS SPOILERS Show review anywayHide
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Great
By Nozzie (11 reviews) from Bingley , 07 Mar 2010Always a pleasure to see any Jack Nicholson film (again)- Was this review helpful to you?
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