Five Easy Pieces
535 reviews
Drama
1h 38m
1970
A drop-out from upper-class America picks up work along the way on oil-rigs when his life isn't spent in a squalid succession of bars, motels, and other points of interest.
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A drop-out from upper-class America picks up work along the way on oil-rigs when his life isn't spent in a squalid succession of bars, motels, and other points of interest.
- DirectorBob Rafelson
- Release12 September 1970
- GenreDrama
- Duration1h 38m
- Budget?
- Revenue$18,099,091
- Rate535 reviews
- Productions
BBS Productions, Columbia Pictures
Cast

Jack Nicholson
Robert Eroica Dupea

Karen Black
Rayette Dipesto

Susan Anspach
Catherine Van Oost

Lois Smith
Partita Dupea

Ralph Waite
Carl Fidelio Dupea

Billy Green Bush
Elton

Irene Dailey
Samia Glavia

Toni Basil
Terry Grouse

Lorna Thayer
Waitress

Richard Stahl
Recording Engineer

Helena Kallianiotes
Palm Apodaca

William Challee
Nicholas Dupea

John P. Ryan
Spicer

Fannie Flagg
Stoney

Sally Struthers
Betty

Bob Rafelson
Man in Elevator (uncredited)
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