Billy Green Bush, Fannie Flagg, Jack Nicholson
An oilfield roustabout/piano virtuoso gives a lesson in diner etiquette.
DVD Release Date: August 28, 2001
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Flixster Reviews (664)
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October 2, 2009A wonderfully bleak and often depressing portrait of an unlikable man who is constantly tormented by his own failings. Fantastic direction, brilliant performances and some of the best scenes in cinema make this film a classic. Hurrah for unhappy endings, not enough contemporary f...( read more)
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December 14, 2008another promising starter about a guy that can't get along with no-one. unfortunately there wasn't enough self destruction for me
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September 1, 2008I guess this Jack Nicholson's calling card when he began to take over films. He was good and had great lines and did Jack Nicholson bizarre stuff, but I don't like him in this country environment with everyone having Southern Accents making people from the South seem like dumbas...( read more)
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August 31, 2008Nicholson KICKS ASS in this movie...along with fantastic direction from Rafelson. The scene with Jack playing piano while a woman watches him and the camera slowly pans over to family photos on the wall until it returns to the woman's face was amazing.
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October 14, 2009Excellent performance by Jack Nicholson. However, good performances are not enough for me to like a story about someone who is as selfish as his character was.
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September 18, 2009This is an interesting film. This is the oldest leading role I've seen from genius Jack Nicholson, who briefly appeared in Easy Rider (1969), and the most shockingly interesting aspect is that he was a genius since then! He has always been in roles of this kind and he's brillian...( read more)
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August 5, 2009Wow. Brilliant players all around. Son of a privilieged musical family drifts in the attempt to find "real" people who aren't total hypocrites. He never finds any. The journey is occasionally funny and always interesting. MUST SEE.
Critic Reviews
March 25, 2003
Roger Ebert, Chicago Sun-Times
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October 24, 2006Nicholsons most introverted character of (his) the 70's and a briliant character study. Five easy Pieces is actually a reference to a basic famous tutorial piano book.
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