Frederic Chopin

Five Easy Pieces -- A restless musician learns you can never go home again when he visits his family for the first time in three years.

Five Easy Pieces -- Jack Nicholson gives a tour de force performance in this riveting masterpiece. Nominated for four Academy Awards(r), including Best Picture 1970.

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George Sand was perhaps the most celebrated novelist of the early nineteenth century and its most notorious Bohemian, better known in her own day than even Charles Dickens. Frederic Chopin was among the greatest musicians of his age. A prodigy who rapidly gained a legendary reputation all over Europe as both a pianist and a composer. IMPROMPTU is the comic and tender tale of how Goerge Sand and Chopin met; of how Sand recklessly pursued Chopin; how Chopin resisted Sand's advances; of how, despite the best and most mischievous efforts of many of those around them, they eventually fell in love.

In this critically acclaimed drama set amid the romance of 19th-century Europe, feminist author George Sand falls for Polish composer Frédéric Chopin, but a number of obstacles stand in their way -- including rivals, former lovers and duels.

In 1830s France, pianist/composer Frédéric Chopin is pursued romantically by the determined, individualistic woman who uses the name George Sand.

In 1830s France, pianist/composer Frédéric Chopin is pursued romantically by the determined, individualistic woman who uses the name George Sand.

Featuring a stellar cast, this classic film is the brilliant character study of a musician with great promise who gives up a career to work on an oil rig. Starring Jack Nicholson, Karen Black, Susan Anspach and Fannie Flagg.

Jack Nicholson gives a tour de force performance in this riveting masterpiece. Nominated for four Academy Awards(r), including Best Picture 1970.

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 (Nicholson), 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 (Karen Black). But when he is summoned to his father's deathbed, Dupea returns home with Rayette, where he meets and falls for a sophisticated woman (Susan Anspach). Now caught between his conflicting lifestyles, the gifted but troubled Dupea must face issues that will change his life forever.

Director Frank Borzage's romantic melodrama stars Philip Dorn as imperious conductor Leopold Goronoff, who grooms promising young pianist Myra Hassman (Catherine McLeod) for greatness, then proceeds to sabotage her career before it even gets off the ground. The passion between maestro and protégé is masterfully conveyed through the classical music passages they play, compositions actually recorded by legendary pianist Artur Rubinstein.

Presented by TCM. A famed flier pursues a married woman during a weekend at her husband's country estate.