Although a brilliant pianist from a well-to-do family, Robert, has made a career out of running from job to job and woman to woman. After being summoned to his father’s deathbed, Robert returns home with his sexy but witless girlfriend, Rayette, when he meets and falls for a sophisticated woman.

It was called “the New Hollywood”: a golden age where counterculture outsiders remade Tinseltown, and Five Easy Pieces is one of its greatest classics. An unflinching look at the middle rungs of American life, with all its dusty streets and dive bars, it cemented the stardom of Jack Nicholson.