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Easy Rider, 1969

Starring: Peter Fonda, Jack Nicholson, Phil Spector

Directed by: Dennis Hopper

Written by: Peter Fonda

Language: English, Spanish

Country: USA

Runtime: 95 min

MPAA Rating:

Rating:7.3

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The mood of Easy Rider is contemplative, sincere, and thought provoking. The plot centers around rebelliousness, Americana, and rebellion. It is a drama, adventure, and crime movie. Stylistically, Easy Rider has a road movie structure. In approach, it is serious and realistic. The setting is the USA. Easy Rider happens in the 1960s. The musical score is rock. The movie is known for being a classic, essential viewing, and an award winner. Note that Easy Rider includes drugs/alcohol and violent content.

Summary of Easy Rider

A landmark in film history, EASY RIDER blew the studio doors open for more young directors than any film before or since, helping to create the wide-open climate that would lead to the production of many outstanding films in the 1970s. As its director, Dennis Hopper is usually given the lion's share of credit for the film's success, but the revelations of time suggest that the contributions of the late Terry Southern and, to some degree, Jack Nicholson have endowed the film with much of its residual power.

Starring Peter Fonda as Wyatt (alias Captain America) and Hopper as Billy, it traces the hippie duo's adventures as they mount their seriously chopped hogs on a journey to find the real America en route to Mardi Gras. In Arizona, they visit a commune whose members are having a tough time, and in a small Texas town they're jailed for joining a parade. But they're quickly sprung by an ACLU lawyer, the quirky, hard-drinking George Hanson (Jack Nicholson), who accepts their offer to join them on the trip to New Orleans, eager to visit the best whorehouse in the South. EASY RIDER accurately reflects the tensions and hostilities of the period, Laszlo Kovacs's photography is superb, Nicholson is exceptional in his breakthrough role--and the startling, stunning ending is a shocker.

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Language:	English, Spanish
Country:	USA
Release date:	14 July 1969
Runtime:	95 min

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Peter Fonda

as Wyatt

Jack Nicholson

as George Hanson

Phil Spector

as Connection

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TV Guide

A finely observed film but insufficiently developed as a satire of middle America. [Review of re-release] Full Review

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by: Staff (Not Credited)

Variety

Fonda himself has given this a fine production dress, with associate Bert Schneider, and the brilliant lensing, excellent music background ballads, especially Bob Dylan's "Easy Rider," are fine counterpoints to this poetic trip along Southwest... Full Review

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by: Gene Moskowitz

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Basically an hour and a half of two guys smoking pot and riding motorcycles. Granted, it is illuminating as far as the decade was concerned, but it hasnt aged well at all. Its a museum piece meant for those people from this time period, and I cant... Read and rate it

26.February.2011
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by: Andrew
Andrew rated this movie3/10Poor

Easy Rider follows two bikers across the country. Theyve just successfully smuggled drugs into the country and now theyre riding from LA to New Orleans for Mardi Gras. Imagine two men on motorcycles driving across the country. Got that mental... Read and rate it

09.October.2009
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by: Ethan Clapham
Ethan Clapham rated this movie4/10Disappointing

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