Five Easy Pieces

Five Easy Pieces
Five Easy Pieces
	Theatrical release poster
Directed by	Bob Rafelson
Screenplay by	Carole Eastman; (credited as Adrien Joyce)
Story by	Bob Rafelson; Carole Eastman; (credited as Adrien Joyce);
Produced by	Bob Rafelson; Richard Wechsler;
Starring	Jack Nicholson; Karen Black; Susan Anspach;
Cinematography	László Kovács
Edited by	Christopher Holmes; Gerald Shepard;
Production; companies	Five Easy Pieces Productions; BBS Productions;
Distributed by	Columbia Pictures
Release dates	September 11, 1970 (New York Film Festival); September 12, 1970 (New York);
Running time	98 minutes
Country	United States
Language	English
Budget	$1.6 million
Box office	$18.1 million

Five Easy Pieces is a 1970 American road drama film directed by Bob Rafelson, written by Rafelson and Carole Eastman (as Adrien Joyce), and starring Jack Nicholson, Karen Black, Susan Anspach, Lois Smith, and Ralph Waite. The film tells the story of surly oil rig worker Bobby Dupea (Nicholson), 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 (Black).

The film was nominated for four Academy Awards and five Golden Globe Awards, and was inducted into the National Film Registry of the Library of Congress in 2000, being deemed "culturally, historically, or aesthetically significant".