| Edition |
DVD special edition. |
| Description |
1 videodisc (98 min.) : DVD video, sound, color ; 4 3/4 in. + 1 folded-out insert. |
| Physical Medium |
DVD video 4 3/4 in. rda |
| Description |
digital optical mono Dolby Digital 1.0 rda |
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laser optical NTSC rda |
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video file DVD video region 1 rda |
| Series |
Criterion Collection ; 546 |
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Criterion collection (DVD videodiscs) ; 546.
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| System Details |
DVD, NTSC, region 1, widescreen (1.85:1) presentation ; Dolby digital mono. |
| Cast |
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. |
| Credits |
Film editors, Christopher Holmes, Gerald Shepard ; interior designer, Toby Rafelson ; director of photography, László Kovács. |
| Note |
DVD release of the 1970 motion picture. |
| Audience |
MPAA rating: R ; CHVRS rating: 18A. |
| Summary |
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 forever. |
| Note |
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 min. 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. |
| Language |
Closed-captioned. |
| Subject |
Petroleum workers -- Drama.
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Gifted persons -- Drama.
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Pianists -- Drama.
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Fathers and sons -- Drama.
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| Genre/Form |
Feature films.
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Fiction films.
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Video recordings for the hearing impaired.
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| Added Author |
Rafelson, Bob, screenwriter, film producer, film director.
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Schneider, Bert, 1933-2011, film producer.
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Joyce, Adrien, screenwriter.
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Wechsler, Richard, film producer.
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Nicholson, Jack, actor.
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Black, Karen, 1939-2013, actor.
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Anspach, Susan, 1942-2018 actor.
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Smith, Lois, 1930- actor.
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Waite, Ralph, 1928-2014, actor.
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Bush, Billy, actor.
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Dailey, Irene, actor.
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Basil, Toni, actor.
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Thayer, Lorna, 1919-2005, actor.
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Stahl, Richard, 1932-2006, actor.
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Kallianiotes, Helena, 1938- actor.
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Challee, William, 1904-1989, actor.
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Ryan, John, 1936-2007, actor.
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Flagg, Fannie, actor.
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MacGuire, Marlena, actor.
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Struthers, Sally, actor.
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Holmes, Christopher (Christopher V.), film editor.
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Shepard, Gerald, film editor.
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Rafelson, Toby, set designer.
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Kovacs, Laszlo, 1933-2007, director of photography.
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Blauner, Steve, interviewee (expression)
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Thomson, David, 1941- interviewee (expression)
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Brinkley, Douglas, interviewee (expression)
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Burstyn, Ellen, 1932- interviewee (expression)
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Bogdanovich, Peter, 1939-2022 interviewee (expression)
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Jaglom, Henry, 1939- interviewee (expression)
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Jones, Kent, 1964- writer of supplementary textual content.
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American Film Institute, interviewer (expression)
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Columbia Pictures, production company.
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Criterion Collection (Firm), film distributor.
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| Added Title |
5 easy pieces |
| ISBN |
168143010X |
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9781681430102 |
| Standard No. |
715515149211 |
| Music No. |
11311390 |
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CC2498DDVD Criterion Collection |
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CC2498D Criterion Collection |
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