Five Easy Pieces Five Easy Pieces Five Easy Pieces is a 1970 American drama film written by Carole Eastman (as Adrien Joyce) and Bob Rafelson, and directed by Rafelson. The film stars Jack Nicholson, with Karen Black, Susan Anspach, Ralph Waite, and Sally Struthers in supporting roles. The film tells the story of surly oil rig worker Bobby Dupea, whose rootless blue-collar existence belies his privileged youth as a piano prodigy. When Bobby learns that his father is dying, he goes home to see him, taking along his waitress girlfriend. The film was nominated for four Academy Awards and five Golden Globe Awards,
All work and no play makes Jack a dull boy added a second part to the proverb, as in "Harry and Lucy Concluded" (1825) by the Irish novelist Maria Edgeworth: The proverb has been used widely throughout popular media, notably including James Joyce's short story "Araby" to Jack Kerouac's "Big Sur", the 1957 movie "The Bridge on the River Kwai", and the 1980 horror movie "The Shining", directed by Stanley Kubrick. In Kubrick's film the main character, Jack Torrance (played by Jack Nicholson), is found to have abandoned the play he was writing in favor of typing this sentence over and over onto reams of paper. A number of other