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Easy Rider [1969]
from Sony Pictures Home Entertainment
starring Peter Fonda, Dennis Hopper, Jack Nicholson, Antonio Mendoza, Phil Spector
directed by Dennis Hopper

Features:

• Dubbed
• PAL
• Widescreen

Editorial Review:

This box-office hit from 1969 is an important pioneer of the American independent cinema movement, and a generational touchstone to boot. Peter Fonda and Dennis Hopper play hippie motorcyclists crossing the Southwest and encountering a crazy quilt of good and bad people. Jack Nicholson turns up in a significant role as an attorney who joins their quest for awhile and articulates society's problem with freedom as Fonda's and Hopper's characters embody it. Hopper directed, essentially bringing the no-frills filmmaking methods of legendary, drive-in movie producer Roger Corman (The Little Shop of Horrors) to a serious feature for the mainstream. The film can't help but look a bit dated now (a psychedelic sequence toward the end particularly doesn't hold up well) but it retains its original power, sense of daring and epochal impact. -- Tom Keogh, Amazon.com

Customer Reviews:

• Avg. Customer Rating: 4.5 / 5.0

• A truly dreadful film
  I seem to remember having enjoyed seeing this at the cinema (when it was new). Not only that, but I recall choosing to listen to the soundtrack album. (I never owned a copy of it, though, putting my money where my mouth was didn't go beyond buying a cinema ticket.) Now, I find it impossible to imagine how I could have enjoyed either the film or its soundtrack.
  The few good songs are more than counter-balanced by the ones that make me cringe (or worse). Can anyone now listen to "Don't Bogart that Joint"... more info

• All gone to look for America.........
  This still stands up 40 years on - perhaps now more than ever.
  Two young guys setting out on an epic journey across the USA to get to the Mardi Gras encounter the real America warts & all.
  Exhilerating & sobering at the same time.
  A pure classic.
  Check out the sequence accompanying Steppenwolf's Born To Be Wild & also Jack Nicholson's superb stint as the drunk lawyer.
  Essential viewing.

• Best of the 60's
  Why had I never seen this film until now? If you can only see one piece of 60's cinema that embodies the era and says something, I'd have to recommend Easy Rider, over even the likes of Blow-Up and Performance. It lay-down the ground works for the road movie and is basically a western set in the modern era, with two guys moving freely from place to place on motorbikes. However, without wanting to spoil the climax, this ain't no feel good mainstream riding off into the sunset leaving a town saved piece.... more info

• What A Long Strange Trip It's Been
  
  "Some films captivate the zeitgeist of the American imagination so completely that they become instant cult favorites. But few such films prove potent enough to retain the favor of audiences in perpetuity. So the fact that, 35 years after the film's release, audiences around the world are still captivated by the raw vision of Easy Rider is no small accomplishment. Wyatt (Peter Fonda) and Billy (Dennis Hopper) are the quintessential hippie bikers. Cruising across America with a gas tank full of dope,... more info

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