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In an Academy Award -nominated performance for Best Actor, Jack Nicholson is outstanding in Five Easy Pieces, the acclaimed drama from director Bob Rafelson. Although a brilliant, classical pianist from an intellectual, well-to-do family - Robert Dupea has made a career out of running from job to job and woman to woman. Presently working in an oil field, Dupea spends most of his free time downing beers,playing poker and being noncommittal with his sexy but witless girlfriend Rayette. But when...

Joe Mantegna is Dr. John Novelli, overworked in the under-staffed and under-financed emergency room of the East End Medical Center. Working with his head nurse Dehlia Johnson (Lynn Whitfield), Novelli is abrasive and sometimes downright rude, but he gets the job done - and the job is saving lives. Novelli is up against a crumbling hospital system, a system that can't afford the equipment or manpower it needs for the endless stream of emergencies a doctor faces. When car-crash victim Jim Anderson...

One of the masters of early German cinema, G. W. Pabst had an innate talent for discovering actresses (including Greta Garbo). And perhaps none of his female stars shone brighter than Kansas native and onetime Ziegfeld girl Louise Brooks, whose legendary persona was defined by Pabst's lurid, controversial melodrama Pandora's Box . Sensationally modern, the film follows the downward spiral of the fiery, brash, yet innocent showgirl Lulu, whose sexual vivacity has a devastating effect on everyone she...