Bob Rafelson

The Profile

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.