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Easy Rider (1969)

Actors: Luana Anders, Luke Askew, Robert Ball, Tita Colorado, Warren Finnerty
Studio: Sony Pictures
Rating: R (Restricted)
Run Time: 95 minutes
Theatrical Release Date: 1969
DVD Release Date: June 04, 2002
Format: DVD
Genres: Cult Movies

Experience the real uncensored 60s counterculture in this compelling mixture of drugs sex and armchair politics. Academy Award - winner Jack Nicholson (Best Actor One Flew Over the Cuckoo s Nest 1975; Best Supporting Actor Terms of Endearment 1983; Best Actor As Good As It Gets 1997) stars with Peter Fonda and Dennis Hopper (Who also directs) in this unconventional classic which Time magazine hails as one of the ten most important pictures of the decade.Nominated for an Academy Award (1969) for Best Screenplay (written by Peter Fonda Dennis Hopper and Terry Southern) Easy Rider continues to touch a chord with audiences of all ages.System Requirements:Starring: Peter Fonda Dennis Hopper and Jack Nicholson. Directed By: Dennis Hopper. Running Time: 95 mins color. This film is presented in "Widescreen" format. Copyright: 1999 Columbia TriStar Home Video. Format: DVD MOVIE Genre: DRAMA Rating: R UPC: 043396017498 Manufacturer No: 01749

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Amazon.com Editorial Review:
This box-office hit from 1969 is an important pioneer of the American independent cinema movement, and a generational touchstone to boot. Peter Fonda and Dennis Hopper play hippie motorcyclists crossing the Southwest and encountering a crazy quilt of good and bad people. Jack Nicholson turns up in a significant role as an attorney who joins their quest for awhile and articulates society's problem with freedom as Fonda's and Hopper's characters embody it. Hopper directed, essentially bringing the no-frills filmmaking methods of legendary, drive-in movie producer Roger Corman (The Little Shop of Horrors) to a serious feature for the mainstream. The film can't help but look a bit dated now (a psychedelic sequence toward the end particularly doesn't hold up well), but it retains its original power, sense of daring, and epochal impact. --Tom Keogh