Rent Easy Rider (1969)
3.5 of 5 from 260 ratings
1h 32min
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- Synopsis:
- Written by Dennis Hopper, Peter Fonda and Terry Southern, Fonda produced the low-budget production whilst Hopper took on Directing duties, receiving an award at Cannes for his first work. Since its release, Easy Rider has been regarded as a symbol of free-spirited reaction against society, and even for those too young to remember its original release, it maintains its status as a classic film which characterises the attitude of a decade. Now, after 30 years, Easy Rider has been remastered and is presented here in High Definition with both clearer picture and sound quality.
- Actors:
- Peter Fonda, Dennis Hopper, Jack Nicholson, Antonio Mendoza, Phil Spector, Mac Mashourian, Warren Finnerty, Tita Colorado, Luke Askew, Luana Anders, Sabrina Scharf, Sandy Brown Wyeth, Robert Walker Jr., Robert Ball, Carmen Phillips, Ellie Wood Walker, Michael Pataki, George Fowler Jr., Keith Green, Hayward Robillard
- Directors:
- Dennis Hopper
- Producers:
- Peter Fonda, Bob Rafelson
- Writers:
- Peter Fonda, Dennis Hopper, Terry Southern
- Others:
- Terry Southern
- Studio:
- Columbia Tristar
- Genres:
- Action & Adventure, Classics, Drama
- Collections:
- A Brief History of Motor Racing Films, Award Winners, Best Film Quests and Adventures, Cinema Paradiso's 2024 Centenary Club: Part 2, Films by Genre, Getting to Know..., Getting to Know: Jack Nicholson, Oscar Nominations Competition 2024, Oscar's Two-Time Club, Remembering Robert Towne, The Best American Road Movies, The Biggest Oscar Snubs: Part 1, A Brief History of Film..., Top 10 European Remakes, Top 100 AFI Movies, Top Films, What We Were Watching in 1971
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- Release Date:
- 21/09/2009
- Run Time:
- 95 minutes
- Languages:
- English Dolby TrueHD 5.1, English LPCM Mono, Italian Dolby TrueHD 5.1, Spanish Dolby TrueHD 5.1
- Subtitles:
- Danish, English, English Hard of Hearing, Finnish, Hindi, Italian, Norwegian, Portuguese, Spanish, Swedish
- DVD Regions:
- Region 2
- Formats:
- Pal
- Aspect Ratio:
- Widescreen 1.85:1
- Colour:
- Colour
- Bonus:
- Director's commentary
- Easy rider: Shaking the cage
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- Release Date:
- 02/12/2019
- Run Time:
- 95 minutes
- Languages:
- Czech Dolby Digital 2.0, English DTS-HD Master Audio 5.1, French, German DTS-HD Master Audio 5.1, Hungarian Dolby Digital 2.0, Italian DTS-HD Master Audio 5.1, Japanese DTS-HD Master Audio 5.1, Polish Dolby Digital 2.0, Portuguese DTS-HD Master Audio 5.1, Russian Dolby Digital 2.0, Spanish Dolby Digital 5.1, Spanish DTS-HD Master Audio 5.1
- Subtitles:
- Arabic, Chinese, Croatian, Czech, Danish, Dutch, English, English Hard of Hearing, Finnish, French, German, Greek, Hungarian, Icelandic, Italian, Japanese, Korean, Norwegian, Polish, Portuguese, Simplified Mandarin, Slovakian, Slovenian, Spanish, Swedish, Thai, Turkish
- DVD Regions:
- Region 0 (All)
- Formats:
- Pal
- Aspect Ratio:
- Widescreen 1.85:1
- Colour:
- Colour
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Reviews (4) of Easy Rider
Top cult 60s film. - Easy Rider review by NC
Must be biggest profit ever in film making. Simple film, simply made, unknown folk, great music, great bikes. One of top ten ever films for the reasons above...............
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One of the most shocking and abrupt endings in cinematic history... - Easy Rider review by CP Customer
I was born in 1982, so Easy Rider's 60s-sentiment of drugs and rebellion doesn't exactly speak volumes to me, but I appreciate it nonetheless as a cultural time capsule. As two free-spirited, high-as-kites bikers (Peter Fonda and Dennis Hopper) drift across the country towards Mardi Gras, they encounter a hippie commune, an ACLU lawyer (brilliantly played by Jack Nicholson) and, most poignantly, people offended by their long hair and counter-culturism. This movie is an antique whose time has long-passed. It's much more about what it represents than what it explicitly shows, as I'm sure many people have complained that "nothing happens". Overall, a good, laid-back road-trip story with an emblematic cultural importance....well worth seeing if you haven't already!
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As much as I appreciate the reverence for this film, it was never more than average for me - Easy Rider review by TB
The film that made Dennis Hopper, which I have seen repeatedly on various greatest films ever lists.
But it doesn't really do very much for me. The opening, showing Hopper and Fonda conducting a drug deal which then allows them to bike across America whilst taking lots of narcotics & mixing with random people, just didn't click. I do absolutely acknowledge that in 1969, this film will have had a very different and profound impact, judged not only by how it was received but it's box office haul.
The film however does go very very slowly. There is a welcome appearance from Jack Nicholson, who it has to be said seemed to be indulging in almost as many drugs in real life as the fictional characters. In some scenes, he is certainly flying high...
The other equally strange thing is the ending. It doesn't make sense and also is so random that after it happened, I remember thinking "Errr OK is that it?" and then seeing the titles come up.
As much as it will be a landmark for many film buffs, it was lost on me. Maybe will rewatch it again sometime, but not in any rush to
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