Just give the guy a piece of toast.
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03/18/07
Five Easy Pieces (1970)
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Reviews Counted:27
Fresh:22
Rotten:5
Average Rating:8.1/10
Runtime: 1 hr 38 mins
Genre: Dramas
Synopsis: FIVE EASY PIECES is one of the most notable collaborations between Jack Nicholson and director Bob Rafelson, with Nicholson in an outstanding performance as Bobby Dupea. In the film, Rafelson and... [More]
Starring: Jack Nicholson, Karen Black, Susan Anspach, Sally Struthers
Director: Bob Rafelson
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Reviews for Five Easy Pieces
Bobby can be seen as spiritual descendant of Melville's scrivener Bartleby, preferring not to participate in a world to which he doesn't subscribe.
12/07/07
Jack Nicholson shines in the film that helped cement his reputation as one of the finest actors of his generation.
07/26/07
The film embraces proletarian chic but still gets its laughs by abusing waitresses.
07/26/07
Top CriticWe'd had a revelation. This was the direction American movies should take: Into idiosyncratic characters, into dialogue with an ear for the vulgar and the literate, into a plot free to surprise us about the characters, into an existential ending.
03/25/03
Top CriticNo review available.
11/22/03
No review available.
04/06/06
It hasn't aged as well as some of its 1970s counterparts, but it's still a heartbreaking film and a minor classic.
06/21/04
A key American film of its era, Bob Rafelson's moody, character-driven tale of an upper-middle class dropout established Jack Nicholson as the foremost actor of his generation in articulating the values of the new generation.
02/26/08
No review available.
09/27/05
No review available.
01/12/04
Critics praise the film's daring, lavishing it with undeserved attention even now, thirty years after it was released.
02/28/02
No review available.
07/26/02
No review available.
09/23/05
Nicholson at his angry, young man peak. Cynical, anti-authoritarian drama.
03/21/03
I expected a lot more from this film. It's basically a rambling boredom piece.
04/30/03
Hold that sandwich! A film representing its time, and a classic.
10/15/04
No review available.
10/03/03
A fascinating character study.
09/10/02
It often seems endless in the possibilities of its human observation.
06/09/02
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