Five Easy Pieces Easy Pieces" was released as a stand-alone DVD and Blu-ray by the Criterion Collection. 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
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",