In director Bob Rafelson's penetrating character study, a promising concert pianist (Jack Nicholson) chucks it all to work on a California oil rig but returns home to confront the cultured and dysfunctional family he left behind when he learns his father is ill. With Nicholson's famed "chicken salad sandwich" scene, Five Easy Pieces catapulted him into Hollywood's big leagues and helped cement him as an A-list star.