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Easy Rider

1969 film by Dennis Hopper

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"Easy Rider" is a 1969 film directed by Dennis Hopper that follows two motorcycle-riding drifters traveling across America. The film became a landmark work that helped establish the counterculture movement in cinema and demonstrated that independent filmmakers could achieve both critical and commercial success.

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Film · TMDB

7.1

Wyatt and Billy, two Harley-riding hippies, complete a drug deal in Southern California and decide to travel cross-country in search of spiritual truth.

Released: 1969-06-2695 minDir: Dennis HopperAdventure, Drama

Cast

Peter Fonda as Wyatt
Dennis Hopper as Billy
Jack Nicholson as George Hanson
Antonio Mendoza as Jesus
Phil Spector as Connection
Mac Mashourian as Bodyguard

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Ratings · OMDb

IMDb

7.2/10

122,458 votes

Rotten Tomatoes

Article

Easy Rider is a 1969 American 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 the South, carrying money made from a cocaine deal. Other actors in the film include Jack Nicholson, Karen Black, and Toni Basil. The success of Easy Rider helped spark the New Hollywood era of filmmaking during the early 1970s.

A landmark counterculture film, and a "touchstone for a generation" which "captured the national imagination" and "mood of the drug culture" at the time. Easy Rider explores the societal landscape, issues, and tensions towards adolescents in the United States during the 1960s including the rise of the hippie movement, drug use, and communal lifestyle. Real drugs were used in scenes showing the use of marijuana and other substances.