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,
Seven Easy Pieces iconic works by recreating or reinterpreting them in "Seven Easy Pieces", but only with the expressed consent of each of the original artists or their estates. "There's nobody to keep the history straight," she told the "New York Times" in an interview published in early November 2005. "I felt almost, like, obliged. I felt like I have this function to do it." "Seven Easy Pieces" is available on DVD and is considered to be useful for performing arts students who study post-structuralism. "Seven Easy Pieces" comprised seven individual works – two of her own and five by other artists –