Five easy pieces [videorecording] / a BBS production ; Columbia ; produced by Bob Rafelson, Richard Wechsler.

Publisher: Burbank, Calif. : Columbia Tristar Home Video, c1970.

ISBN: 0767828054
9780767828055

Description: 1 videodisc (96 min.) : sd., col. ; 4 3/4 in.

Subject: Father and child Drama.
Reconciliation Drama.
Pianists Drama.
Feature films. gsafd
Video recordings for the hearing impaired. lcsh

Credits: Director, Bob Rafelson ; screenwriter, Adrien Joyce ; director of photography, Laszlo Kovacs ; editors, Christopher Holmes, Gerald Shepard.

Performers: Jack Nicholson, Karen Black, Susan Anspach, Lois Smith, Billy Green Bush, William Challee.

Target Audience: Rated R.

Notes: In English ; Subtitles in English, Spanish, Portuguese, Chinese, Korean, Thai.
Closed captioned for the hearing impaired.
Features include: Widescreen and full screen versions; bonus trailer; production notes; talent files.
Title from disc.
Widescreen format on Side A, standard on Side B.
Originally produced as a motion picture in 1970.

Summary: Character study of a talented pianist who has given up a promising career and now works on oil rigs. After 20 years he returns home to his father's deathbed perhaps to reconcile himself with his fear of failure and desire for greatness.