Five easy pieces

DVD 2015

Presently working in an oil field, talented pianist Robert Dupea spends most of his free time downing beers, playing poker and being noncommittal with his sexy but witless girlfriend Rayette. But when he is summoned to his father's deathbed, Dupea returns home with Rayette, where he meets and falls for a sophisticated woman. Now caught between his conflicting lifestyles, the gifted but troubled Dupea must face issues that will change his life for...

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Fathers and sons Fiction

Gifted persons Fiction

Petroleum workers Fiction

Pianists Fiction

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Feature films Fiction films Video recordings for the hearing impaired

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Criterion collection Criterion collection ; 546 Criterion collection ; 546 DVD

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ISBN:

9781681430102
9781604653632
168143010X

Edition:

DVD Special edition

Description:

1 videodisc (98 minutes) : sound, colour ; 4 3/4 inches
polychrome
digital
optical
surround
Dolby Digital 1.0
wide screen
NTSC
video file
DVD video
region 1

Target Audience Note:

Canadian Home Video Rating: 18A

Other Title:

5 easy pieces

Notes:

DVD release of the 1970 motion picture
Special features: Commentary (featuring director Bob Rafelson and interior designer Toby Rafelson); Soul searching in "Five easy pieces" (a 2009 video piece featuring Rafelson and Jack Nicholson dicussing the writing and development of the film) ; BBS: a time for change (30 minutes video piece from 2010, about Bob Rafelson, Bert Schneider, and Steve Blauner's legendary movie company BBS Productions, features critic David Thomson and historian Douglas Brinkley); BBStory (a 2009 documentary about BBS Productions, with Rafelson, actors Jack Nicholson, Karen Black, and Ellen Burstyn, directors Peter Bogdanovich and Henry Jaglom and others); Bob Rafelson at AFI (audio excerpts from a 1976 AFI interview with Rafelson as part of the Harold Lloyd Master Seminar series); Teasers and trailer. Insert includes an essay by critic Kent Jones
Title from container
Film editors, Christopher Holmes, Gerald Shepard ; interior designer, Toby Rafelson ; director of photography, Laszlo Kovacs
Jack Nicholson, Karen Black, Susan Anspach, Lois Smith, Ralph Waite, Billy "Green" Bush, Irene Dailey, Toni Basil, Lorna Thayer, Richard Stahl, Helena Kallianiotes, William Challee, John Ryan, Fannie Flagg, Marlena MacGuire, Sally Ann Struthers
Subtitled for the deaf and hard-of-hearing (SDH)
DVD ; wide screen presentation ; Dolby Digital 1.0
For private home use only
Audio track in English, captions in English

Control Number:

1205667

UPC:

715515065818
715515149211

Other Authors:

Anspach, Susan, 1942-2018, actor
Basil, Toni, actor
Black, Karen, 1939-2013, actor
Bush, Billy, actor
Challee, William, 1904-1989, actor
Columbia Pictures, production company
Criterion Collection (Firm), publisher
Dailey, Irene, actor
Flagg, Fannie, actor
Holmes, Christopher (Christopher V.), editor of moving image work
Joyce, Adrien, screenwriter
Kallianiotes, Helena, 1938- actor
Kovacs, Laszlo, 1933-2007, director of photography
Macguire, Marlena, actor
Nicholson, Jack, actor
Rafelson, Bob, screenwriter, film producer, film director
Ryan, John, 1936-2007, actor
Schneider, Bert, 1933-2011, film producer
Shepard, Gerald, editor of moving image work
Smith, Lois, 1930- actor
Stahl, Richard, 1932-2006, actor
Struthers, Sally, actor
Thayer, Lorna, 1919-2005, actor
Waite, Ralph, 1928-2014, actor
Wechsler, Richard, film producer

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