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Easy Rider
1969
Two bikers set off in search of the 'real' America. Originally released in 1969, Easy Rider is widely regarded as the original 'road movie' and, based on the cult following it developed, it was soon copied by other hollywood studios. Read more
| Starring | Peter Fonda, Dennis Hopper, Jack Nicholson |
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| Director | Dennis Hopper |
| Genres | Action/Adventure, Drama |
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Easy Rider
Two bikers set off in search of the 'real' America. Originally released in 1969, Easy Rider is widely regarded as the original 'road movie' and, based on the cult following it developed, it was soon copied by other hollywood studios.
| Starring | Peter Fonda, Dennis Hopper, Jack Nicholson |
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| Director | Dennis Hopper |
| Studio | COLUMBIA TRI-STAR HOME VIDEO |
| Run time | DVD: 1 hr 31 mins Blu-ray: 1 hr 35 mins |
| Certificate | |
| Genres | Action/Adventure, Drama |
| Language | English |
| Dubbed | French, German, Italian, Spanish |
| Subtitles | Arabic, Czech, Danish, Dutch, English, Finnish, French, German, Greek, Hebrew, Hindi, Hungarian, Icelandic, Italian, Norwegian, Polish, Portuguese, Spanish, Swedish, Turkish |
| Released | DVD: 10 Jan 2000 Blu-ray: 21 Sep 2009 Production year: 1969 |
| Format | DVD |
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Road movies were never the same after this. As laid-back as the machines straddled by Dennis Hopper and Peter Fonda in their search for “the real America”, and as hip as a whole drop-out generation, this magical mystery tour of the USA has a casual conviction that outstrips Hopper's own on-the-run direction to touch a mythic nerve. Jack Nicholson's boozy lawyer successfully articulates the yearning of the alienated young. That the film ends in sullen and sudden death raises it to the power of allegory, and its success proved there was an audience and a need that the box-office pundits didn't even know existed. As a result, the studios tried desperately to repeat its low-budget magic, but failed. It just didn't equate with the usual Hollywood formula; it had created its own.
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Happening to please hippies and motor-cycle enthusiasts as well as amateur politicians, this oddball melodrama drew freakishly large audiences throughout the world and was much imitated though never equalled in its casual effectiveness.
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15 out of 18 people found this review helpful
and the point is
what was this all about
i had heard how great this 'cult' movie was and was looking forward to watching it, but what a pile of rubbish.
There was no point to it and absolutely bugger all happens....boring -
Most recent members' review
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2 out of 2 people found this review helpful
The King's New Clothes
Having waited nearly 40 years to see this movie and living with its reputation as an iconic statement of its generation I'm afraid it's a case of the 'King's New Clothes'
There's a great soundtrack and the old Steppenwolf number is still stirring and I guess the film is worth it for Jack Nicholson's perfomance alone.
In fact Jack is the only one on screen that's acting and bringing quirky life to a stereotype (and a stereotype even then). Peter Fonda sleepwalks through the movie looking cool and for the rest character development etc is nil.
The plot is flimsy and direction relies on set piece statements to deliver the message - this is wooden and unfortunately most of the dialogue is delivered as a mumble.
When the film ends I get more of an impression that the writers, director and crew just plain ran out of ideas and glued in a drug/dream sequence in New Orleans followed by the big (or rather small) bang ending.
Nice to see Phil Spector and Toni Basil (remember 'Hey Mickey')in cameo roles but like I said great soundtrack pity about the rest. -
News and features
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Fonda: 'We smoked real pot on Easy Rider'
- 01 Nov 2009
Jack Nicholson, Peter Fonda and Dennis Hopper smoked real cannabis during a scene for movie classic Easy Rider. Fonda has confessed the trio used "real pot" to capture the moment Nicholson's character tries the drug for the first time. But he refutes longstanding rumours they took LSD on the set of the 1969 movie. Fonda tells Extra, "We did not take LSD, no matter what the rumours say. You can't make a movie when you're ripped like that." Read more
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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 ...
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Two bikers set off in search of the 'real' America. Originally released in 1969, Easy Rider is widely regarded as the original 'road movie' and, based on the cult following it developed, it was soon ... -