Rent Easy Rider (1969)
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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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Cult Classic - A Must See - Easy Rider review by GI
This is probably the most famous counter-culture film ever made and it certainly impacted on its initial release. It's a road movie and in many ways a picture postcard vision of America as seen through the journey of the two main characters played by Dennis Hopper and Peter Fonda. It's also a quite sharp condemnation of the American Dream and the idea of the US being the land of the free. In many ways it's a bizarre film with little, if any, real narrative story other than of two young men who score big with a drug deal and on their Harley Davidsons head off from Los Angeles to New Orleans for the Mardis Gras and then onwards to Florida. On the journey they meet corruption and bigotry for their long hair and apparent alternative lifestyle challenging the various rednecks conservative values along the way. Ironically the characters are rooted in the mythology of the American West, the film is littered with 'cowboy' iconography, and yet face harassment from the very people who worship the legends of the frontier. Jack Nicholson, playing an alcoholic lawyer who joins them for part of the trip, gives a prophetic speech about how they represent the free individual which is a threat to the very people who preach about freedom. A speech made just before his murder at the hands of rednecks. With it's drug use, prostitution and challenges to those conservative values this was a film way ahead of its time and yet came towards the end of the swinging sixties when sexual freedom and drug use had already been epitomised in music especially. Of course the film has a fantastic soundtrack and it's use of enigmatic flash editing and the infamous LSD trip sequence make this an interesting watch today and I can see why some modern viewers may find it a challenge but it's still an important and stimulating film and one every film fan must see.
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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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