Five Easy Pieces 4K UHD & Blu-Ray

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.

Film Info:

· United States

· 1970

· 98 minutes

· Color

· 1.85:1

· English

· Spine #546

4K UHD + BLU-RAY SPECIAL EDITION FEATURES

· 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

· Cover by F. Ron Miller