Five Easy Pieces

  • Drama
9/12/1970
98
R

He rode the fast lane on the road to nowhere.

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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  • Geronimo1967

    Bobby (Jack Nicholson) is a talented pianist from a successful family of musicians who has spurned the easy life and adopted a grifting existence working construction where he can and when he needs to. That itinerant life suits him. He is a man who seeks casual fun and who shuns any sort of commitment to his gal, to other people, or even to himself. Gradually he begins to become a little disaffected with his choices in life and with the emptiness it has left him with, and so returns to the family home where he discovers his dad has suffered from a few seizures. This new state of affairs compels Bobby to finally start to put a few things into perspective. Its been three years since his last visit home and so, naturally, he is not the only on...

    July 16, 2025

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