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Easy Rider is a 1969 American independent [3] [4] road drama film written by Peter Fonda, Dennis Hopper, and Terry Southern, produced by Fonda, and directed by Hopper. Fonda and Hopper play two bikers who travel through the American Southwest and South, carrying the proceeds from a cocaine deal.
Two hippies on motorcycles travel from L.A. to New Orleans, meeting various people and challenges along the way. IMDb provides cast and crew information, user and critic reviews, trivia, goofs, quotes, and more for this classic road movie.
- (118K)
- Adventure, Drama
- Dennis Hopper
- 1969-06-26
Easy Rider (4K UHD) Experience the real '60s counterculture in this compelling mixture of drugs, sex and armchair politics. Nicholson stars with Fonda and Hopper in this unconventional classic which was hailed as "one of the ten most important pictures of the decade."
- 91 min
Wyatt (Peter Fonda) and Billy (Dennis Hopper), two Harley-riding hippies, complete a drug deal in Southern California and decide to travel cross-country in...
- (56)
- Dennis Hopper
- R
- Peter Fonda
- Garin Pirnia
- 2 min
- Easy Rider was made for the youth of the time. Before Easy Rider, Hollywood was churning out happier films starring the effervescent Doris Day, but Dennis Hopper’s film changed that.
- The film's original ending involved Bill and Wyatt sailing into the sunset. One of the most shocking things about Easy Rider is its ending, where both of the leads violently perish.
- It was one of the first films to integrate found music. Instead of hiring a musician to compose a score for the film, Hopper decided to use pre-recorded music from Bob Dylan, The Band, Steppenwolf, and Jimi Hendrix on the soundtrack.
- Dennis Hopper claimed Terry Southern's only contribution to the film was the title. “Terry Southern never wrote one f***ing word of Easy Rider. Only the title Easy Rider came from him,” Hopper told The Guardian in 2001.
Oct 24, 2004 · A classic road movie and a symbol of the '60s counterculture, starring Peter Fonda and Dennis Hopper as bikers on a drug-fueled journey across America. Read Roger Ebert's review, see the trailer, and learn about the film's legacy and impact.
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Two hippie bikers, Wyatt and Billy, travel from Los Angeles to New Orleans for Mardi Gras, encountering various people and landscapes along the way. The film explores the counter-culture, the American dream, and the dangers of the road in this classic road movie.
