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Easy Rider Details

1969 Certificate 18
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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 copied by other hollywood studios. Read more

Starring Peter Fonda, Dennis Hopper, Jack Nicholson
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
Director Dennis Hopper
Studio COLUMBIA TRI-STAR HOME VIDEO
Run time DVD: 1 hr 31 mins
Blu-ray: 1 hr 35 mins
Certificate Certificate 18
Genres Action/Adventure, Drama
Language DVD: English
Blu-ray: English
Dubbed French, German, Italian, Spanish
Subtitles DVD: Arabic, Czech, Danish, Dutch, English, Finnish, French, German, Greek, Hebrew, Hindi, Hungarian, Icelandic, Italian, Norwegian, Polish, Portuguese, Spanish, Swedish, Turkish
Blu-ray: Croatian, Icelandic, Hebrew, Slovene, Slovak, Greek, Hindi, Czech, Hungarian, Bulgarian, English, Arabic, Turkish, Polish
Released DVD: 10 Jan 2000
Blu-ray: 21 Sep 2009
Production year: 1969
Format DVD

  • Critics' reviews (5) of Easy Rider

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  • 5 stars out of 5

    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.

    • Radio Times
    • Posted 29 Jan 2006
  • 4 stars out of 4

    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.

    • Halliwell's Film Guide
    • Posted 02 Mar 2006

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  • 16 out of 19 people found this review helpful

    Rated - 2 stars

    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

      • A customer from Preston
      • Posted 31 Mar 2005 09:57

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  • 1 out of 1 person found this review helpful

    Rated - 4 stars

    Two Hippies Ride Bikes and Get High!

    What a great film! Fantastic soundtrack, rebellion, escapism, beautifully photographed, drugs (dealing, smoking, tripping) and a look at the underbelly of America all contribute to the creation of something that was made on a light budget without too much of a script: the ethos of hippy-dom, maybe. The ultimate antidote to globalisation, spin and retrospective politicians? Absolutely not, it’s too dated and seems naïve, almost lazy by contemporary standards.

    Nonetheless, I wouldn’t hesitate to recommend it, either for nostalgia or an insight into the culture of the late 60’s: and consider this - the US government now lists this film in its National Archive as a valid reflection of the times.

    Some plot? Billy (Dennis Hopper) and Wyatt (Peter Fonda) set off on a road trip with a hatful of cash from some hard-won, illicit drug-dealing: New Orleans’ Mardi Gras their goal. They smoke lots of grass, meet people who rebuff and resent them, get higher, meet some who welcome them, smoke more, get beaten up, take more drugs, fall out…the rest you have to watch.

    Jack Nicholson puts in his now famous performance as the washed up lawyer, Hanson, and had his proportion of screen time been any longer he would certainly have stolen the show.

    You’d have to be made of stone not to love his inane grinning on the back of Wyatt’s bike donning an American Football helmet: priceless!

      • Rearwheel from London
      • Posted 27 Apr 2006 14:51

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    Easy Rider

    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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