Five Easy Pieces
“He rode the fast lane on the road to nowhere.”
Robert Dupea spends his days doing various odd jobs, drinking and womanizing until an encounter with his sister makes him revisit his past.
Genres
Drama
Studio
BBS Productions
Language
en
Status
Released
How Five Easy Pieces performed
Budget
$1.6M
Worldwide Gross
$18.1M
Gross Profit
$16.5M
Return
11.3× budget
Opening Wknd (est.)
$3M
Source: TMDB. Domestic/international split (~48/52, genre-typical) and the opening-weekend figure (30% of the domestic run, typical for Drama) are MoviesRankd estimates. Profit is gross revenue minus production budget and excludes marketing — studios typically need ~2–2.5× budget to break even.
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Cast
Robert Eroica Dupea
Jack Nicholson
Robert Eroica Dupea
Rayette Dipesto
Karen Black
Rayette Dipesto
Catherine Van Oost
Susan Anspach
Catherine Van Oost
Partita Dupea
Lois Smith
Partita Dupea
Carl Fidelio Dupea
Ralph Waite
Carl Fidelio Dupea
Elton
Billy Green Bush
Elton
Samia Glavia
Irene Dailey
Samia Glavia
Terry Grouse
Toni Basil
Terry Grouse
Waitress
Lorna Thayer
Waitress
Recording Engineer
Richard Stahl
Recording Engineer
Palm Apodaca
Helena Kallianiotes
Palm Apodaca
Nicholas Dupea
William Challee
Nicholas Dupea
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