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Bob Rafelson’s celebrated meditation on existential ennui and self loathing, Five Easy Pieces, a film in the vanguard of the seventies’ golden age of auteur-driven cinema, premieres in New York.Written by Carole Eastman (as Adrien Joyce), Jack Nicholson is the seriously disillusioned, musically prodigious scion of an upper class family who forsakes the trappings of an empty life of privilege forever in lockstep with familial expectations and disappears into the anonymity of a rootless, blue collar existence of an oil rig labourer. Co-starring Karen Black, Susan Anspach, Sally Struthers and Ralph Waite.
