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Peter Fonda stars in this joyously psychedelic freak-out from legendary low-budget director Roger Corman. It's a lysergic time capsule set in swinging 1967 Los Angeles, as Paul (Fonda), a commercial director in the midst of a divorce, takes time out to have his first LSD experience. Bruce Dern is John, his "guide," and Dennis .. Read more

Starring Peter Fonda, Dennis Hopper, Jack Nicholson, Peter Bogdanovich
Director Roger Corman
Genres Drama

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The Trip

Peter Fonda stars in this joyously psychedelic freak-out from legendary low-budget director Roger Corman. It's a lysergic time capsule set in swinging 1967 Los Angeles, as Paul (Fonda), a commercial director in the midst of a divorce, takes time out to have his first LSD experience. Bruce Dern is John, his "guide," and Dennis Hopper is their dealer. Fellow hipster Jack Nicholson wrote the screenplay. Paul's hallucinations include painted women wandering along a beach, cloaked horseback riders, kaleidoscopic colour patterns, a dwarf (Angelo Rossitto) on a merry-go-round, and his own death. Finally, Paul freaks out and hits the streets, where he digs some go-go dancing at a club and some spinning laundry at the Laundromat. Too much! Susan Strasberg plays his wife. Sali Sachse and Judy Lang are a couple of groovy women he meets along the way. Corman regulars Jonathan Haze, Barboura Morris, and Luana Anders also appear, and look fast for Peter Bogdanovich at a party. Peter Gardiner did the psychedelic effects, and the acid rock score comes courtesy of the Electric Flag (billed as the American Music Band). Hopper, Fonda, and Nicholson's next project together was EASY RIDER.

Starring Peter Fonda, Dennis Hopper, Jack Nicholson, Peter Bogdanovich
Director Roger Corman
Studio MGM ENTERTAINMENT
Run time DVD: 1 hr 18 mins
Certificate DVD Certificate 18.gif
Genres Drama
Language English
Released DVD: 05 Apr 2004
Production year: 1967
Format DVD

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  • 3 stars out of 5

    “Feel Purple, Taste Green” screamed the posters for cult director Roger Corman's highly controversial drugs epic in which hippy Bruce Dern guides confused commercials director Peter Fonda through his first LSD acid trip. After scoring from Dennis Hopper (who else?) it's back to a luxury LA pad where Fonda digs an orange's aura, experiences good and bad vibes, has psychedelic visions of sex, death and dancing girls, grooves to washing machines in a laundromat and wanders through sets leftover from Corman's own Edgar Allen Poe movies. Part exploitation flick, part non-preachy message picture, this fractured love-in, scripted by Jack Nicholson and told almost entirely through rapid-fire visuals, is a fascinating period piece.

    • Radio Times
    • Posted 29 Jan 2006

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    Rated - 2 stars

    A bad trip

    Roger Corman, King of the B-Movie, directed this dated slice of sixties psychedelia from a Jack Nicholson screenplay. Peter Fonda stars as Paul, a director of TV commercials, who decides that he wants to experience LSD for the first time. Bruce Dern plays Fonda's sidekick, a psychiatrist who doubles as Fonda's 'guide.' There is little guidance here beyond the first few moments of the trip because Paul starts to 'freak out,' and wanders into downtown LA, experiencing all the groovy colors, sights and sounds of the era and meets plenty of ladies ready for some sixties-style free loving.

    As Corman pictures go this isn't that bad, boasting a decent script, imaginative cinematography and good performances from Fonda, Dern and Dennis Hopper. Unfortunately things fail to develop once Fonda leaves the apartment and we have to sit through endless scenes of him looking wide-eyed at his surroundings. There is one very funny scene where he's fascinated by a washing machine but the film soon becomes repetetive.

    'The Trip' is very much a film of it's time, everyone says groovy at least five times and Dennis Hopper's entire dialogue seems to consist of the word 'man'. It's entertaining as a slice of nostalgia but is mostly trivial and rambling and isn't really a trip worth taking.

      • Philip Concannon from London
      • Posted 04 Aug 2004 23:46

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    Rated - 3 stars

    Far Out , Man

    Yes its dated. Yes its cheesy. Yes its a wonderful document of the beginings of so much which was to shape the end of the 20th century and the modern popular culture. The inventive use of cuts, jerky camera and psychedelic colours point the way to what has become the norm on MTV and most advertising TV. LSD broke down many wallls and opened up new vistas. This film is also notable for pairing Peter Fonda and Dennis Hopper prior to the seminal underground success of 'Easy Rider'.

      • Herne23Hunter from Cambs
      • Posted 01 Oct 2005 20:15

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