Double Feature

Five Easy Pieces

In an Academy Award-nominated performance for Best Actor (1970), Jack Nicholson is outstanding in Five Easy Pieces, the acclaimed drama from director Bob Rafelson. Although a brilliant, classical pianist from an intellectual, well-to-do family, Robert Dupea (Nicholson), has made a career out of running from job to job and woman to woman. Presently working in an oil field, Dupea spends most of his free time downing beers, playing poker and being noncommittal with his sexy but witless girlfriend Rayette (Karen Black). But when he is summoned to his father’s deathbed, Dupea returns home with Rayette, where he meets and falls for a sophisticated woman (Susan Anspach). Now caught between his conflicting lifestyles, the gifted but troubled Dupea must face issues that will change his life forever. Deceptively simple, but one of the most complex and interesting films of its time, Five Easy Pieces garnered a 1970 Academy Award nomination for Best Picture with Black receiving the 1970 New York Film Critics award (Best Suppporting Actress) for her excellent performance. (Sony Pictures)

The King of Marvin Gardens

Jack Nicholson, Bruce Dern, and Ellen Burstyn star in a New Hollywood classic from director Bob Rafelson!

In a film that captures all the sadness of an American dream gone wrong, Bruce Dern concocts impossible get-rich-quick schemes and insists on trying them out on his brother and girlfriend. Dern’s final scheme, to build an Hawaiian resort with embezzled money from his mobster boss, ends in tragedy for all involved. (Sony Pictures)