Five Easy Pieces 4K UHD + Blu-Ray (UK Import)

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Five Easy Pieces 4K UHD + Blu-Ray (UK Import)
Criterion

Original title: Five Easy Pieces

Year: 1970
Country: USA
Region code: 4K UHD: A/B/C; Blu-Ray: B
Content: 4K UHD + Blu-Ray
EAN: 5061088922955

Image: 1.85:1 (2160p)

HDR: Dolby Vision / HDR10

Audio: English - LPCM Mono

Subtitles: English SDH

Age rating: R

Genre: Drama

Cast: Jack Nicholson, Karen Black, Billy Green Bush, Fannie Flagg, Sally Struthers, Marlena MacGuire

Director: Bob Rafelson


Synopsis:

Following Jack Nicholson’s breakout supporting turn in Easy Rider, director Bob Rafelson devised a powerful leading role for the new star in the searing character study Five Easy Pieces. Nicholson plays the now iconic cad Bobby Dupea, a shiftless thirtysomething oil rigger and former piano prodigy immune to any sense of responsibility, who returns to his upper-middle-class childhood home, blue-collar girlfriend (Karen Black, in an Oscar-nominated role) in tow, to see his estranged, ailing father. Moving in its simplicity and gritty in its textures, Five Easy Pieces is a lasting example of early-1970s American alienation.

Extras:

• New 4K digital restoration, with uncompressed monaural soundtrack
• One 4K UHD disc of the film presented in Dolby Vision HDR and one Blu-ray with the film and special features
• Audio commentary by director Bob Rafelson and interior designer Toby Rafelson
• Soul Searching in “Five Easy Pieces,” a 2009 program featuring Bob Rafelson
• BBStory, a documentary about the legendary film company BBS Productions, with Rafelson; actors Jack Nicholson, Karen Black, and Ellen Burstyn; filmmakers Peter Bogdanovich and Henry Jaglom; and others
• Documentary featuring critic David Thomson and historian Douglas Brinkley
• Audio excerpts from a 1976 AFI interview with Rafelson
• Trailer and teasers
• English subtitles for the deaf and hard of hearing
• PLUS: An essay by critic Kent Jones