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  1. Oct 7, 2012 · Once a promising pianist from a family of classical musicians, Bobby Eroica Dupea (Jack Nicholson, in his first major starring role) leads a blue-collar life as an oil rigger, living with needy ...

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  2. Featuring a stellar cast, this classic film is the brilliant character study of a musician with great promise who gives up a career to work on an oil rig. Starring Jack Nicholson, Karen Black ...

  3. The film tells the story of surly oil rig worker Bobby Dupea, whose rootless blue-collar existence belies his privileged youth as a piano prodigy. When Bobby learns that his father is dying, he travels to his family home in Washington to visit him, taking along his uncouth girlfriend.

  4. Mar 16, 2003 · Bobby is attracted to Catherine, a musician of class and poise, and she has sex with him, but scoffs at the notion that they have a future: “You have no love for yourself, no love for family, for friends–how can you ask for love?”

  5. Jun 6, 2012 · Five Easy Pieces is an important extension of the myth of the road in American culture. What makes it memorable is the concurrent feeling that Bobby is an attractive self-destructive – the trip to Alaska is the deadest of closed ends, yet he has the charm, the wit and the endearing rebellious smile that was Nicholson in 1970.

  6. Five Easy Pieces: Directed by Bob Rafelson. With Jack Nicholson, Karen Black, Billy Green Bush, Fannie Flagg. A dropout 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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  8. Five Easy Pieces. Following Jack Nicholson’s breakout supporting turn in Easy Rider, director Bob Rafelson devised a powerful leading role for the new star in the searing character study Five Easy Pieces.

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