Five Easy Pieces (1970)


Jack Nicholson          Robert Eroica Dupea
Karen Black             Rayette Dipesto
Susan Anspach           Catherine Van Ost
Billy Green Bush        Elton
Fannie Flagg            Stoney
Sally Struthers         Betty
Lois Smith              Partita Dupea
Ralph Waite             Carl Fidelio Dupea
William Challee (II)    Nicholas Dupea
Marlena MacGuire        Twinky
Richard Stahl (II)      Recording Engineer
Helena Kallianiotes     Palm Apodaca
Toni Basil              Terry Grouse
Lorna Thayer (II)       Waitress
John Ryan (II)          Spicer
Irene Dailey (II)       Samia Glavia

Directed by:            Bob Rafelson
Produced by:            Bert Schneider, Bob Rafelson, Richard Wechsler


An oilfield roustabout/piano virtuoso gives a lesson in diner etiquette.

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Robert Dupea has given up his promising career as a concert pianist and is now working in oil fields. 
He lives together with Rayette, who's a waitress in a diner. When Robert hears from his sister that his 
father isn't well, he drives up to Washington to see him, taking Rayette with him. There he gets 
confronted with his rich, cultured family that he had left behind.

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Bobby Eroica Dupea comes from a well-bred family of musicians, and once showed great promise as a concert 
pianist. By nature a restless, angry individual, Bobby left his family and his music when he could no 
longer endure the dull, cloistered routine of daily practice. He took to the road, wanting to "see the 
world," and hopefully find something or someone to quell his inner turmoil. He has settled in a small 
town as an oil rigger, where his life consists of going to work, arguing with his dimwitted but loving 
girlfriend Rayette, and bowling every night with his friend Elton. Not surprisingly, this routine begins 
to disgust Bobby and, fed up, he decides to travel to Puget Sound, Washington to pay his family a visit. 
Leaving Rayette at a nearby motel, gets on a truck leaving everything.