Five Easy Pieces of four: The title of "Five Easy Pieces" refers not to the women its hero makes along the road, for there are only three, but to a book of piano exercises he owned as a child. The film, one of the best American films, is about the distance between that boy, practicing to become a concert pianist, and the need he feels 20 years later to disguise himself as an oil-field rigger. When we sense the boy, tormented and insecure, trapped inside the adult man, "Five Easy Pieces" becomes a masterpiece of heartbreaking intensity... The movie is joyously alive to
Raybert Productions features from BBS Productions among some of the most influential and enduring classics of the early 1970s New Hollywood era which anticipated the rise of American independent film through the 1980s and '90s. Jack Nicholson starred in three others—"Five Easy Pieces" (1970), "A Safe Place" (1971), and "The King of Marvin Gardens" (1972)—as well as co-wrote "Drive, He Said" (1971), which was his directorial debut. A multi-disc boxed set entitled "America Lost and Found: The BBS Story" was released by The Criterion Collection on Blu-ray and DVD in 2010. The set included the films "Head", "Easy Rider", "Five Easy Pieces",