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Featuring a stellar cast, this classic film is the brilliant character study of a musician with great promise who gives up a career to work on an oil rig. Starring Jack Nicholson, Karen Black, Susan Anspach and Fannie Flagg.
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Rotten Tomatoes Movie Reviews
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86%- Reviews Counted: 43
- Fresh: 37
- Rotten: 6
- Average Rating: 8.5/10
Top Critics' Reviews
Fresh: The film's nervewracking quality is consistent with its content. Nicholson's performance is a remarkably varied and daring exploration of a complex character, equally convincing in its manic and sober aspects.
Fresh: It's a great work of the Discover America Seventies.
Fresh: The flaws of this acutely self-conscious 1970 road picture grow more obvious with every passing year, but so does its passion and eloquence.
Fresh: Nicholson makes it all go. He proves he is more than a "character actor" with many scenes, especially the confrontation with his father.
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good movie
young jack nicholson doin work
Five Easy Pieces
I feel that this is the most under appreciated Nicholson film ever. I can really relate to this story. It's as if Jack can't help but weave in and out of that threshold of his mind. He's on the fringe of insanity, and self destruction (not to mention the destruction of others) and love and kindness. Just when he seems so close he ruins it for himself. A truly depressive soul. He can't take to mundane aspects of life. He has no idea how to be happy. It's one of the great films of its time!
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- $12.99
- Genre: Drama
- Released: 1970
- © 1970, renewed 1998 Columbia Pictures Industries, Inc. All Rights Reserved.