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:
, , , Antonio Mendoza, , Mac Mashourian, , Tita Colorado, , , , , , , , , , George Fowler Jr., Keith Green, Hayward Robillard
Directors:
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, Films by Genre, Getting to Know..., Getting to Know: Jack Nicholson, Oscar Nominations Competition 2024, Oscar's Two-Time Club, 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
Awards:

1969 Cannes Best First Work

BBFC:
Release Date:
10/01/2000
Run Time:
92 minutes
Languages:
English Dolby Digital 5.1, French Dolby Digital 1.0 Mono, German Dolby Digital 1.0 Mono, Italian Dolby Digital 1.0 Mono, Spanish Dolby Digital 1.0 Mono
Subtitles:
Czech, Danish, Dutch, English, Finnish, French, German, Greek, Hebrew, Hindi, Hungarian, Icelandic, Italian, Norwegian, Polish, Portuguese, Spanish, Swedish, Turkish
DVD Regions:
Region 2
Formats:
Pal
Aspect Ratio:
Widescreen 1.85:1
Colour:
Colour
Bonus:
  • 67 Minute "Shaking The Cage" Featurette Included
  • Director's Commentary
  • Filmographies
BBFC:
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
BBFC:
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
BLU-RAY Regions:
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Reviews (4) of Easy Rider

Top cult 60s film. - Easy Rider review by NC

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21/03/2020

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

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01/08/2022

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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As much as I appreciate the reverence for this film, it was never more than average for me - Easy Rider review by TB

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22/06/2023

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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