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A FILM WORTH A CLOSER LOOKTHE FEATURE PRESENTATION
IF THIS ONE STAYED WITH YOU
Keep the feeling.
SIMILAR PICKS / A PERSONAL CONNECTION
01
Why this pick
Like Five Easy Pieces, it pairs abrasive masculine drift with unexpected tenderness, using a loose road-bound structure and lived-in 1970s American texture rather than tidy emotional resolution.
02
Why this pick
Rafelson again frames a volatile, alienated man against a faded American landscape, with Jack Nicholson delivering the same unsettling mix of intelligence, resentment, and emotional evasiveness.
03
Why this pick
Its sparse cross-country wandering, deadpan encounters, and refusal to explain its emotionally sealed-off characters make it an ideal companion to Five Easy Pieces’ restless, anti-conventional mood.
04
Why this pick
This unsentimental study of working-class disappointment shares the film’s bruised compassion, unvarnished regional detail, and attention to people who sabotage the limited chances they have.
05
Why this pick
Though more crime-centered, it has the same weathered, observational realism: a defeated adult moving through ordinary places, compromised relationships, and a world offering no clean escape.
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01 / THE STORY
Bobby Dupea works in an oil field in Kern County, California with his friend Elton, who has a wife and a baby son. Bobby spends most of his time with his waitress girlfriend Rayette, who has dreams of singing country music; or in the company of Elton, with whom he bowls, gets drunk, and has sex with other women. Bobby has not told Elton that he is a former classical pianist who comes from a family of musicians.
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02 / FACES IN THE FRAME
Catherine Van Oost
Elton
Nicholas Dupea
Stoney
Spicer
Samia
Recording Engineer
Waitress
