Five Easy Pieces

Five Easy Pieces is a 1970 American drama film written by Carole Eastman as Adrien Joyce and Bob Rafelson, and directed by Rafelson. The film stars Jack Nicholson, with Karen Black, Susan Anspach, Ralph Waite, and Sally Struthers in supporting roles.

Bobby Dupea Jack Nicholson works in a California oil field shot in and around the city of Taft in the San Joaquin Valley with his friend Elton Billy Green Bush, who has a wife and baby son. Most of Bobbys time is spent with his waitress girlfriend, Rayette Karen Black, who has dreams of singing country music, or in the company of Elton, with whom he bowls, gets drunk, and has sex with other women. Bobby has evidently not told Elton that he is a former classical pianist who comes from an eccentric family of musicians.When Rayette becomes pregnant and Elton is arrested for having robbed a gas station a year earlier, Bobby quits his job and leaves for Los Angeles where his sister, Partita Lois Smith, also a pianist, is making a recording. Partita informs him that their father, from whom Bobby is estranged, has suffered two strokes. She urges Bobby to return to the family home in Washington state, to visit their father. ........

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