Five Easy Pieces (1970)
Date and Time
Tuesday Jul 19, 2016
7:00 PM - 9:00 PM EDT
Tuesday July 19th 2016
7:00 p.m.
Location
The Music Hall
28 Chestnut St, Portsmouth, NH 03801
Fees/Admission
Subscriptions for the Film Club (series of six) are available for $75, individual tickets are available for $15. Tickets are limited, book your subscription today. No passes. Ticket price includes a free popcorn and post-film discussion with host and moderator Trevor Bartlett.
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Description
By 1970 Jack Nicholson had already established himself as a formidable character actor who was capable of nimbly swiping scenes out from under bigger-name leads, but it was Five Easy Pieces that proved he was a star. Jack’s performance as temperamental dropout Bobby Dupea, a trained concert pianist desperate to escape the rigidity of his hidebound upbringing, is both vulgar and literate, caustic and caring. Landing him his first of many Academy Award nominations, his work with this role rises to fully inhabit a difficult and abstract space that - much like the era which it produced it - could be qualified interchangeably as deeply fragile or explosively unstable. Directed and co-written by Bob Rafelson (The Postman Always Rings Twice).
