Editing Five Easy Pieces (section)

===Box office===
{{Quote box|width=30em|bgcolor=cornsilk|align=right|fontsize=101%|salign=right|quote="The last sequence is of the finest quality. Bobby decides to leave both girlfriend and family and abandon life entirely...a truck driver gives him a ride to a place where 'it is very cold': the country of death. Rafelson and his cameraman [[László Kovács (cinematographer)|László Kovács]] fix the scene in our minds forever: the filling station and its discreet restroom; the grey surrounding buildings; the dripping autumnal vegetation of the Pacific Northwest; the parked truck waiting to go to Alaska; the face of Nicholson, already aging and filled with premonitory shadows, fixed behind the windshield. Religion, love and family have all failed to work, leaving absolutely nothing at the end but a journey to nowhere."|source=—Biographer [[Charles Higham (biographer)|Charles Higham]] in ''The Art of the American Cinema: 1900-1971''.<ref>{{cite book|first=Charles |last=Higham |year=1973 |title=The Art of the American Film: 1900-1971 |publisher=Doubleday & Company, Inc. |location=New York |isbn=0-385-06935-9 |pages=307–308 |quote=Nicholson gives a performance of sustained brilliance as Bobby Dupea" in ''Five Easy Pieces''}}</ref>}}
In the film's opening weekend at the Coronet, it grossed $10,476.<ref>{{cite magazine|title=N.Y. Fest 'Moveovers' Start Well: 'Suppose A War' $17,000, Astor But Casualty At Embassy East|magazine=[[Variety (magazine)|Variety]]|date=September 16, 1970 |page=9|url=https://archive.org/details/sim_variety_1970-09-16_260_5/page/8/mode/2up?view=theater|access-date=April 7, 2024|via=[[Internet Archive]]}}</ref> It grossed $36,710 in its first week.<ref>{{cite magazine|magazine=[[Variety (magazine)|Variety]]|title=50 Top-Grossing Films|url=https://archive.org/details/sim_variety_1970-09-30_260_7/page/11|date=September 30, 1970|page=11}}</ref> After ten weeks of release, it reached [[List of 1970 box office number-one films in the United States|number one at the US box office]].<ref>{{cite magazine|magazine=[[Variety (magazine)|Variety]]|title=50 Top-Grossing Films|url=https://archive.org/details/sim_variety_1970-11-25_261_2/page/11|date=November 25, 1970|page=11}}</ref>

The film earned $1.2 million in the United States in 1970.<ref>{{cite magazine|title=Big Rental Films of 1970 |magazine=Variety |date=January 6, 1971 |page=11|url=https://archive.org/details/sim_variety_1971-01-06_261_8/page/11/mode/1up}}</ref> By 1976, it had earned $8.9 million in the United States and Canada.<ref>{{cite magazine|title=All-time Film Rental Champs |magazine=Variety |date=January 7, 1976 |page=44}}</ref>