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Five easy pieces, Criterion Collection; A BBS Production, directed by Bob Rafelson

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Five easy pieces

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Criterion Collection; A BBS Production, directed by Bob Rafelson

"A masterpiece of heartbreaking intensity."--Roger Ebert"This superbly composed film comes as close to perfection as it gets."--The Guardian

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America's lost and found : the BBS storyCriterion collection, 546

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"America's lost and found": Like the rest of America, Hollywood was ripe for revolution in the late sixties. Cinema attendance was down; what had once worked seemed broken. Enter Bob Rafelson, Bert Schneider, and Steve Blauner, who knew that what Hollywood needed was new audiences, namely young people, and that meant cultivating new talent and new ideas. Fueled by money from their invention of the superstar TV pop group the Monkees, they set off on a film-industry journey that would lead them to form BBS Productions, a company that was also a community. "Five Easy Pieces" is one of their iconic films

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