What is The Last Picture Show / Five Easy Pieces about?

Name: The Last Picture Show / Five Easy Pieces
Genre: Drama,Music/Performing Arts

THE LAST PICTURE SHOW, 1971, Sony Repertory, 118 min. Based on Larry McMurtry’s elegiac, autobiographical novel of north Texas in the late 1950’s, THE LAST PICTURE SHOW stars Jeff Bridges, Timothy Bottoms and Cybill Shepherd as a trio of sexually-confused teens trapped in a dying, dust-blown town. Directed by Peter Bogdanovich and photographed by Robert Surtees. FIVE EASY PIECES, 1970, Sony Repertory, 96 min. Hard-hitting, brilliantly sarcastic drama of Bakersfield oil-rig worker Jack Nicholson on the run from his former life as a concert pianist, with country waitress girlfriend Karen Black in tow. Returning to visit his Washington island home after his father has a stroke, things come to a head when he seduces the fiancee (Susan Anspach) of his better-than-thou brother (Ralph Waite). Directed by Bob Rafelson and written by Carole Eastman.

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What is The Last Picture Show / Five Easy Pieces about?: THE LAST PICTURE SHOW, 1971, Sony Repertory, 118 min. Based on Larry McMurtry’s elegiac, autobiographical novel of north Texas in the late 1950’s, THE LAST PICTURE SHOW stars Jeff Bridges, Timothy Bottoms and Cybill Shepherd as a trio of sexually-confused teens trapped in a dying, dust-blown town. Directed by Peter Bogdanovich and photographed by Robert Surtees.

FIVE EASY PIECES, 1970, Sony Repertory, 96 min. Hard-hitting, brilliantly sarcastic drama of Bakersfield oil-rig worker Jack Nicholson on the run from his former life as a concert pianist, with country waitress girlfriend Karen Black in tow. Returning to visit his Washington island home after his father has a stroke, things come to a head when he seduces the fiancee (Susan Anspach) of his better-than-thou brother (Ralph Waite). Directed by Bob Rafelson and written by Carole Eastman.