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Easy Rider

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Easy Rider reviews
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7.2 User Score:

Movie Info

Genre(s): Adventure  |  Classic  |  Crime  |  Drama

Written by: Dennis Hopper
Peter Fonda
Terry Southern

Directed by: Dennis Hopper

Release Date:
Theatrical: July 14, 1969
DVD: June 4, 2002

Running Time: 94 minutes, Color

Origin: USA

Summary

RATING: R

Starring Peter Fonda, Dennis Hopper, Antonio Mendoza, and Phil Spector

An alcoholic attorney (Nicholson) hooks up with two part-time, drug-dealing motorcyclists (Fonda and Hopper) in search of their "American Dream." Heading from California to New Orleans, they sample the highs and lows of America the beautiful in a stoned-out quest for life's true meaning. (Sony Pictures)

What The Critics Said

All critic scores are converted to a 100-point scale. If a critic does not indicate a score, we assign a score based on the general impression given by the text of the review. Learn more...

100

Austin Chronicle Marjorie Baumgarten

Fonda and Hopper’s now-classic film hit the old guard with the force of a rifle shot to the head. [Review of re-release]

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100

Chicago Sun-Times Roger Ebert

Someday it was inevitable that a great film would come along, utilizing the motorcycle genre, the same way the great Westerns suddenly made everyone realize they were a legitimate American art form, Easy Rider is the picture.

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100

TV Guide Staff (Not Credited)

A finely observed film but insufficiently developed as a satire of middle America. [Review of re-release]

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90

Variety Gene Moskowitz

Fonda himself has given this a fine production dress, with associate Bert Schneider, and the brilliant lensing, excellent music background ballads, especially Bob Dylan's "Easy Rider," are fine counterpoints to this poetic trip along Southwest America.

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90

Time Staff (Not Credited)

The film has refurbished the classic romantic gospel of the outcast wanderer.

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70

The New York Times Vincent Canby

With the exception of Nicholson, its good things are familiar things - the rock score, the lovely, sometimes impressionistic photography by Laszlo Kovacs, the faces of small-town America.

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70

Chicago Reader Dave Kehr

The film may be a relic now, but it is a fascinating souvenir - particularly in its narcissism and fatalism - of how the hippie movement thought of itself. [Review of re-release]

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What Our Users Said

The average user rating for this movie is 7.2 (out of 10) based on 7 User Votes

Note: User votes are NOT included in the Metascore calculation.

Shannon P. gave it a3:
Portrays the hippie/drug culture wanderers with great depth and sympathy, but paints middle America with a broad nasty brush. Slow. Boring. Very little actually happens and when it does, it takes the easy way out. If this had been released 10 years later, it would have been relegated to the dustbin. And I wanted to like it.

Kyle gave it a9:
Most important film of the 60s.

Tony B. gave it a1:
Overrated claptrap in 1969 and virtually unwatchable now.

Buzz C. gave it a10:
Strange. But very cool!

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