Five Easy Pieces (Columbia Pictures) (1970)

“TF YOU SEE NOTHING ELSE THIS YEAR, YOU MUST SEE FIVE EASY PIECES! This film will not, | think, ever fade from memory. Consummately played by Jack Nicholson, one of the few truly gifted movie actors!” ‘A MASTERPIECE! THE MOST BRILLIANT, INCREDIBLY MARVELOUS FILM I’VE SEEN IN 5 OR 6 YEARS. JACK NICHOLSON IS THE FINEST SCREEN ACTOR OF THIS ERA, AND FIVE EASY PIECES IS THE MOVIE TO —Rex Reed, HOLIDAY SEE IN 1970!” “A STRIKING MOVIE. ELO QUENT AND IMPORTANT!” — Penelope Gilliatt, THE NEW YORKER “ONE OF THE YEAR’S BIG ONES! JACK NICHOLSON IS TREMENDOUS! A MAR.VELOUSLY INTRIGUING PERFORMANCE!"’-Bob Salmaggi GROUP W RADIO ‘‘AN AMERICAN MASTERPIECE! FAR AND AWAY, THE BEST AMERICAN FILM | HAVE SEEN THIS YEAR! Jack Nicholson gives a great, complex and tragic performance, one of the most extraordinary portraits of an alienated man any actor has ever given. Director Bob Rafelson will probably win every award issued this year and he deserves them all! IF THERE IS ONLY ONE PICTURE YOU CAN SEE THIS YEAR, FIVE EASY PIECES SHOULD BE IT!”’ —Bernard Drew, | GANNETT NEWS SERVICE “ONE OF THE IMPORTANT FILMS OF THE YEAR! A MARVELOUS PICTURE! Fresh, Original, extraordinarily accurate, with suspense and the restlessness of our time .. the range is tremendous!” — Archer Winsten, N.Y. POST { New York 4 Film Festival and COLUMBIA PICTURES Presents a BBS Production JACK NICHOLSON FIVILf LASY 7, [4 PILCES KAREN BLACK and SUSAN ANSPACH Screenplay by ADRIEN JO YCE Story by BOB RAFELSON ona ADRIEN JOYCE Produced by BOB RAFELSON and RICHARD WECHSLER Executive Producer BERT SCHNEIDER Directed by BOB RAFELSON COLOR RESTRICTED PY oe K ee > secon S im est —Richard Schickel, LIFE “LISTEN, I'VE WAITED HERE NEARLY TWO YEARS FOR AN AMERICAN PICTURE | COULD FULL-OUT GET BEHIND ...NO HEMMING AND HAWING, NO rete THAT MATTER. SO FAR, THIS Sits” .— Jacob Brackman, ESQUIRE “ONE OF THE FINEST AND MOST IMPORTANT PICTURES OF 1970! A MAJOR TRIUMPH! This film is possibly the wisest, most mature work to be made by an American this year...with one of the most extraordinary per formances of the year!”’ —Joseph Gelmis, NEWSDAY “A FASCINATING FILM, ABRASIVELY CONTEMPORARY AND HAUNTINGLY UNIVERSAL. It is indeed a film to reflect on—and you will! Director Bob Rafelson has built his film around Jack Nicholson, a beautifully eloquent actor whose naturalism is quintessential.” — Judith Crist NEW YORK’ MAGAZINE ‘‘A TESTAMENT TO THE THRILLING DANGER OF JUST LIVING! It looked very classy in the competition at the New York Film Festival!”’ —Andrew Sarris, THE VILLAGE VOICE “A PROBING FILM! UNUSUAL STRENGTH AND BITE! The sense of honesty and authenticity is maintained down to its last detail! Played with astonishing nat uralness by Jack Nicholson!’ — Hollis Alpert, SATURDAY REVIEW “ONE OF THE BEST FILMS OF 1970! DON'T MISS IT!” Ad No. 403—604 Lines—4 Cols. x 1034 Inches —Gail Rock, WOMEN’S WEAR DAILY Also Available as Ad No. 501—1005 Lines—5 Cols. x 14!/, Inches ing, Motion Picture Association of America, 522 Fifth Avenue, New York, N. Y. 10036. RESTRICTED This picture has been rated: Under 17 requires Accompanying Parent or Adult Guardian Page 3 AOS herein, has been approved under A\e,.0/ 77 the standards for Advertising of the Code of Self-Regulation of the APPROVED Motion Picture Association of America. All inquiries on this procedure may be addressed to: Director of the Code for Advertis All advertising in this pressbook, as well as all other advertising and publicity materials referred to