Easy Rider | 
 enlarge | Actors: Luana Anders, Luke Askew, Robert Ball, Tita Colorado, Warren Finnerty
Studio: Sony Pictures
Category: DVD
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Rating:  168 reviews
Sales Rank: 2024
Format: Ac-3, Anamorphic, Closed-captioned, Color, Dolby, Dvd-video, Special Edition, Widescreen, Ntsc
Languages: English (Original Language), Chinese (Subtitled), English (Subtitled), Korean (Subtitled), Portuguese (Subtitled), Spanish (Subtitled), Thai (Subtitled)
Rating: R (Restricted)
Number Of Items: 1
Running Time: 95
Aspect Ratio: 1.85:1
DVD Layers: 2
DVD Sides: 1
Picture Format: Anamorphic Widescreen
Shipping Weight (lbs): 0.3
Dimensions (in): 7.4 x 5.1 x 0.6
MPN: 01749
ISBN: 0800141784
UPC: 043396017498
EAN: 9780800141783
ASIN: B000022TSY
Theatrical Release Date: 1969
Release Date: June 4, 2002
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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
Product Description
Experience the real uncensored 60s counterculture in this compelling mixture of drugs sex and armchair politics. Academy Award - winner Jack Nicholson (Best Actor One Flew Over the Cuckoo s Nest 1975; Best Supporting Actor Terms of Endearment 1983; Best Actor As Good As It Gets 1997) stars with Peter Fonda and Dennis Hopper (Who also directs) in this unconventional classic which Time magazine hails as one of the ten most important pictures of the decade.Nominated for an Academy Award (1969) for Best Screenplay (written by Peter Fonda Dennis Hopper and Terry Southern) Easy Rider continues to touch a chord with audiences of all ages.System Requirements:Starring: Peter Fonda Dennis Hopper and Jack Nicholson. Directed By: Dennis Hopper. Running Time: 95 mins color. This film is presented in "Widescreen" format. Copyright: 1999 Columbia TriStar Home Video. Format: DVD MOVIE Genre: DRAMA Rating: R UPC: 043396017498 Manufacturer No: 01749
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 Still The Best May 11, 2008
Still one of the best "buddy"/"anti-establishment" movies of all time. This review is not going to cover anything that hasn't already been covered. In short, AMAZING, EXCELLENT, OUTSTANDING!!!
Still Stunning April 25, 2008
I saw this when it first came out, and was blown away.
But hey, that was the 60s, so maybe I was just reacting to the times.
But no.
Twenty years later I was asked to teach a course called "The Journey of Life" and use it as one of the pieces.
I was afraid it would not hold up.
I am glad to say I was wrong.
It held up splendidly.
It is one of those films that transcends itself. Despite the shoestring budget and no-name actors (Hopper and Fonda and Nicholson were practically unknown), it pole-vaults into the category of National Myth.
It instantly harks back to one of the elemental themes in America: Seeking Freedom by Hitting the Open Road.
This goes way back--past Kerouac, past Whitman, past Huck and Jim lighting out for the territories, past Ishmael and Queequeg, past Leatherstocking and Chingachkook, past even Hester Prynne and Pearl.
Amazing how this archetype resonates.
The simplicity, the scenery, the topical references (like the parade in the small town; the hippie commune), the strange drug-spirituality in New Orleans, the violence.
Great stuff.
Easy Rider April 20, 2008
1 out of 1 found this review helpful
What a great movie! Easy Rider brought back some good memories of days gone by. I first saw this with my dad at a drive in theater.Easy Rider
Why dont you get a haircut????? April 13, 2008
1 out of 2 found this review helpful
Yes the ending, the ending!!!!!!!!! that redneck goiter laden hick freak in his pick up truck deserved some little trophy award for saying that line "why dont you get a haircut?" and then Boom!!!!!!!!!!!. I remember walking out of that theatre unable to speak, feel or show expression. Those were my heroes (Billy and Captain America)seeing them get blown away so violently seeking freedom and the real America which thay found unfortunately, was just too much for me. But they needed to be martyrs for the movie to work as well as it did. A great American indie that needed to be made before the 60's left us for good. This is grass man it gives you a whole new way of looking at the day. Now If we can get someone to make Easy Rider 2. Get your motors running.
The Greatest Film Ever Made March 27, 2008
1 out of 1 found this review helpful
This film is everything to me. Made the year I was born it has everything that is great. Friends, Dylan, The Byrds, The West, America, Motorcycles, Women, Dreams, Adventure, Freedom, Love and Life.
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