Five Easy Pieces

Five Easy Pieces1970

Director: Bob Rafelson
Stars: Jack Nicholson, Karen Black, Billy Green Bush, Fannie Flagg, Sally Struthers
Genre: Drama
Rating: R (Restricted)
Runtime: 98 minutes

This subtle, existential character study of an emotionally distant outcast (Nicholson) forced to confront his past failures remains an intimate cornerstone of American '70s cinema. Written and directed with remarkable restraint by Bob Rafelson, the … more »



Betty:
When I was four, just four years old, I went to my mother and I said, "What's this hole in my chin?" -- I saw this dimple in my chin in the mirror, and didn't know what it was. And my mother said -- get what my mother says -- she says, "When you're born, you go on a assembly line past God, and if He likes you, He says,

Betty:
"You cute little thing!" and you get dimples there. And if He doesn't like you, He goes,

Betty:
"Go away." So about six months later, my mother found me saying my prayers, and I was going,

Betty:
"Now I lay me down to sleep... " My mother says, "What are you covering up your chin for?" And I said, "Because if I cover up the hole, maybe He'll listen to me."

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