Following Jack Nicholson’s breakout supporting turn inEasy Rider,director Bob Rafelson devised a powerful leading role for the new star in the searing character studyFive Easy Pieces.Nicholson plays the now iconic cad Bobby Dupea, a shiftless thirtysomething oil rigger and former piano prodigy immune to any sense of responsibility, who returns to his upper-middle-class childhood home, blue-collar girlfriend (Karen Black, in an Oscar-nominated role) in tow, to see his estranged, ailing father. Moving in its simplicity and gritty in its textures,Five Easy Piecesis a lasting example of early-1970s American alienation.
4K UHD + BLU-RAY SPECIAL EDITION FEATURES
New 4K digital restoration, with uncompressed monaural soundtrack
One 4K UHD disc of the film presented in Dolby Vision HDR and one Blu-ray with the film and special features
Audio commentary by director Bob Rafelson and interior designer Toby Rafelson
Soul Searching in “Five Easy Pieces,”a 2009 program featuring Bob Rafelson
BBStory,a documentary about the legendary film company BBS Productions, with Rafelson; actors Jack Nicholson, Karen Black, and Ellen Burstyn; filmmakers Peter Bogdanovich and Henry Jaglom; and others
Documentary featuring critic David Thomson and historian Douglas Brinkley
Audio excerpts from a 1976 AFI interview with Rafelson
Trailer and teasers
English subtitles for the deaf and hard of hearing
PLUS: An essay by critic Kent Jones Cover by F. Ron Miller
$33.99
Five Easy Pieces (4K UHD, #546)—
$33.99
Five Easy Pieces (4K UHD, #546)
Following Jack Nicholson’s breakout supporting turn inEasy Rider,director Bob Rafelson devised a powerful leading role for the new star in the searing character studyFive Easy Pieces.Nicholson plays the now iconic cad Bobby Dupea, a shiftless thirtysomething oil rigger and former piano prodigy immune to any sense of responsibility, who returns to his upper-middle-class childhood home, blue-collar girlfriend (Karen Black, in an Oscar-nominated role) in tow, to see his estranged, ailing father. Moving in its simplicity and gritty in its textures,Five Easy Piecesis a lasting example of early-1970s American alienation.
4K UHD + BLU-RAY SPECIAL EDITION FEATURES
New 4K digital restoration, with uncompressed monaural soundtrack
One 4K UHD disc of the film presented in Dolby Vision HDR and one Blu-ray with the film and special features
Audio commentary by director Bob Rafelson and interior designer Toby Rafelson
Soul Searching in “Five Easy Pieces,”a 2009 program featuring Bob Rafelson
BBStory,a documentary about the legendary film company BBS Productions, with Rafelson; actors Jack Nicholson, Karen Black, and Ellen Burstyn; filmmakers Peter Bogdanovich and Henry Jaglom; and others
Documentary featuring critic David Thomson and historian Douglas Brinkley
Audio excerpts from a 1976 AFI interview with Rafelson
Trailer and teasers
English subtitles for the deaf and hard of hearing
PLUS: An essay by critic Kent Jones Cover by F. Ron Miller
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Following Jack Nicholson’s breakout supporting turn inEasy Rider,director Bob Rafelson devised a powerful leading role for the new star in the searing character studyFive Easy Pieces.Nicholson plays the now iconic cad Bobby Dupea, a shiftless thirtysomething oil rigger and former piano prodigy immune to any sense of responsibility, who returns to his upper-middle-class childhood home, blue-collar girlfriend (Karen Black, in an Oscar-nominated role) in tow, to see his estranged, ailing father. Moving in its simplicity and gritty in its textures,Five Easy Piecesis a lasting example of early-1970s American alienation.
4K UHD + BLU-RAY SPECIAL EDITION FEATURES
New 4K digital restoration, with uncompressed monaural soundtrack
One 4K UHD disc of the film presented in Dolby Vision HDR and one Blu-ray with the film and special features
Audio commentary by director Bob Rafelson and interior designer Toby Rafelson
Soul Searching in “Five Easy Pieces,”a 2009 program featuring Bob Rafelson
BBStory,a documentary about the legendary film company BBS Productions, with Rafelson; actors Jack Nicholson, Karen Black, and Ellen Burstyn; filmmakers Peter Bogdanovich and Henry Jaglom; and others
Documentary featuring critic David Thomson and historian Douglas Brinkley
Audio excerpts from a 1976 AFI interview with Rafelson
Trailer and teasers
English subtitles for the deaf and hard of hearing
PLUS: An essay by critic Kent Jones Cover by F. Ron Miller
