Five Easy Pieces - Free Movie

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Director Bob Rafelson, Protected content , USA
98 min, 35mm-to-digital, colour, rated M | Jack Nicholson, Karen Black

Much of 20th-century American cinema romanticised the figure of the oil worker as a rugged frontiersman chasing black gold. Enter: Five easy pieces. This masterful New Hollywood drama deflates the myth of the heroic wildcatter in a seething study of wounded masculinity. Jack Nicholson gives a career-best performance as Bobby Dupea, an embittered rigger drifting through California’s oil fields. When news arrives that his estranged father has suffered a stroke, Dupea – once a gifted concert pianist who has abandoned his privileged upbringing in search of a more authentic life – begins the journey back home. His odyssey unfolds across a desolate sprawl of roadside diners, motels and gas stations, icons of petrol-powered Americana promising escape yet delivering ever-more alienation. ‘One of the best American films! A masterpiece of heartbreaking intensity! – critic Roger Ebert.