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Easy Rider
Universal acclaim
Based on 7 critic reviews
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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)
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What The Critics Said
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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]
Read Full Review >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.
Read Full Review >TV Guide Staff (Not Credited)
A finely observed film but insufficiently developed as a satire of middle America. [Review of re-release]
Read Full Review >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.
Read Full Review >Time Staff (Not Credited)
The film has refurbished the classic romantic gospel of the outcast wanderer.
Read Full Review >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.
Read Full Review >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]
Read Full Review >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!
