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Easy Rider is a 1969 American independent 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.
Easy Rider: Directed by Dennis Hopper. With Peter Fonda, Dennis Hopper, Antonio Mendoza, Phil Spector. Two bikers head from L.A. to New Orleans through the open country and desert lands, and along the way they meet a man who bridges a counter-culture gap of which they had been unaware.
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 search of spiritual truth.
- Drama
Oct 24, 2004 · BORN TO BE WILD: Two disaffected bikers (Dennis Hopper, left, and Peter Fonda) head off in search of America in the buddy/road movie "Easy Rider" (1969), which made Jack Nicholson (playing straitlaced lawyer George Hanson, far right) a star.
Two young "hippie" bikers, Wyatt and Billy, sell some dope in Southern California, stash their money away in their gas-tank, and set off for a trip across America on their own personal odyssey looking for a way to lead their lives.
A cross-country trip to sell drugs puts two hippie bikers on a collision course with small-town prejudices.
"Easy Rider" takes the gang leader (Fonda) and condenses his gang into one uptight archetype (played by director Hopper.) It takes the aimless rebellion of the bike gangs and channels it into specific rejection of the establishment (by which is meant everything from rednecks to the Pentagon to hippies on communes).
