History Film / FiveEasyPieces

* DysfunctionalFamily: There's Robert's father, who is crippled by a stroke; Robert's sister Tita, carrying on an illicit affair with her father's male nurse; his emasculated brother Carl, and Carl's wife Catherine, who cheats on her husband with Robert.

Directed by Bob Rafelson, the film also stars Creator/KarenBlack, Susan Anspach, Billy "Green" Bush, Fannie Flagg, Ralph Waite, Creator/SallyStruthers, Toni Basil (later of "Mickey" fame), Lois Smith, and Helen Kallianiotes.

* {{Foreshadowing}}: Robert's working on an oil rig, but there are hints that there's more to his life, like when he sits down and plays the hell out of a piano, or when he insults Elton by calling him a "cracker asshole who lives in a trailer park" (where Robert is also living), or when he refuses to let Rayette play Music/TammyWynette because "it's a question of musical integrity".

Directed by Bob Rafelson, the film also stars Creator/KarenBlack, Susan Anspach, Billy "Green" Bush, Fannie Flagg, Ralph Waite, Sally Struthers, Toni Basil (later of "Mickey" fame), Lois Smith, and Helen Kallianiotes.

* YourCheatingHeart: Robert cheats on Rayette constantly, and Catherine cheats on her husband.

A 1970 drama film that marked Creator/JackNicholson's transition from promising character actor to [[StarMakingRole outright movie star]]. One of the early films of the so-called "American new wave" that flourished in the early 1970s, it featured flawed and often unsympathetic characters, idiosyncratic dialogue, and an ending that did not offer any conventional resolution. The plot involves Robert Dupea, an oil rig worker living with his waitress girlfriend, who returns to his family's estate and must face his past after his father becomes ill. Directed by Bob Rafelson. Also starred Karen Black, Susan Anspach, Billy "Green" Bush, Fannie Flagg, Ralph Waite, Sally Struthers, Toni Basil (later of "Mickey" fame), Lois Smith, and Helen Kallianiotes.

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-->--'''Robert Dupea'''

* TheOtherRainforest: A significant portion of the film takes place at the Dupea's family estate in the Puget Sound area.

* SignificantName: Robert [[Creator/LudwigVanBeethoven Eroica]] Dupea.

* TheBore: Palm Apodaca, the obnoxious hitchhiker that Robert and Rayette pick up, who will not stop ranting about how everyone and everywhere in the world is dirty, even when she puts the other passengers to sleep.

* HypocriticalHumor: Palm Apodaca, who occasionally interrupts her nonstop ranting about how dirty the world is by saying "I don't even want to talk about it."

* AwesomeMccoolname: Robert Eroica Dupea, Palm Apodaca.

* ThemeNaming: Music-related names are common in the Dupea. Bobby and Carl both have middle names taken from Beethoven compositions (Eroica and Fidelio) and their sister is named [[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Partita Partita]].

-> "I move around a lot, not because I'm looking for anything really, but 'cause I'm getting away from things that get bad if I stay."
--> Robert Dupea

A 1970 drama film that marked Creator/JackNicholson's transition from promising character actor to [[StarMakingRole outright movie sta]]r. One of the early films of the so-called "American new wave" that flourished in the early 1970s, it featured flawed and often unsympathetic characters, idiosyncratic dialogue, and an ending that did not offer any conventional resolution. The plot involves Robert Dupea, an oil rig worker living with his waitress girlfriend, who returns to his family's estate and must face his past after his father becomes ill. Directed by Bob Rafelson. Also starred Karen Black, Susan Anspach, Billy "Green" Bush, Fannie Flagg, Ralph Waite, Sally Struthers, Toni Basil (later of "Mickey" fame), Lois Smith, and Helen Kallianiotes.

A 1970 drama film that marked Creator/JackNicholson's transition from promising character actor to outright movie star. One of the early films of the so-called "American new wave" that flourished in the early 1970s, it featured flawed and often unsympathetic characters, idiosyncratic dialogue, and an ending that did not offer any conventional resolution. The plot involves Robert Dupea, an oil rig worker living with his waitress girlfriend, who returns to his family's estate and must face his past after his father becomes ill. Directed by Bob Rafelson. Also starred Karen Black, Susan Anspach, Billy "Green" Bush, Fannie Flagg, Ralph Waite, Sally Struthers, Toni Basil (later of "Mickey" fame), Lois Smith, and Helen Kallianiotes.

The title is a reference to a well-known introductory piano book, containing "five easy pieces" for beginners.

* TheSpeechless: Robert's father.

A 1970 drama film that marked JackNicholson's transition from promising character actor to outright movie star. One of the early films of the so-called "American new wave" that flourished in the early 1970s, it featured flawed and often unsympathetic characters, idiosyncratic dialogue, and an ending that did not offer any conventional resolution. The plot involves Robert Dupea, an oil rig worker living with his waitress girlfriend, who returns to his family's estate and must face his past after his father becomes ill. Directed by Bob Rafelson. Also starred Karen Black, Susan Anspach, Billy "Green" Bush, Fannie Flagg, Ralph Waite, Sally Struthers, Toni Basil (later of "Mickey" fame), Lois Smith, and Helen Kallianiotes.

* [[spoiler:DisappearedDad: Robert is on his way to become one after he abandons Rayette and her unborn child at a gas station in the end.]]
* TheDitz: Rayette

* DysfunctionalFamily
* HiddenDepths

* JerkAss
* [[spoiler:NoEnding]]

* HypocriticalHeartwaming: Bobby lays into a frosty intellectual for talking down to Rayette. He belittles her and sleeps around on her but is also protective of her, sometimes.