Robert (Bob) Rafelson (1933–2022) was an American film director and producer associated with the New Hollywood era; he directed Five Easy Pieces (1970) and co-created the TV series The Monkees.

American director and producer; part of the New Hollywood movement; directed Five Easy Pieces (1970); co-creator of the TV series The Monkees.

Two DeBaser reviews praise Bob Rafelson's Five Easy Pieces for direction, cinematography and Jack Nicholson's central performance. The film is described as a portrait of a conflicted, restless generation and its incommunicability with family and bourgeois values. Reviewers highlight the promontory scene and the film's austere, powerful ending.

For:Fans of classic American cinema, students of film history, admirers of Jack Nicholson and New Hollywood

 Bobby is a brilliant and restless person, irascible and perpetually dissatisfied.

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 A mere $800,000 from the proceeds of "Easy Rider" allowed Bob Rafelson to make a pivotal film of the new Hollywood.

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