Easy Rider
2 Oscar Nominations·AFI #84·National Film Registry
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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.
What critics thought
Easy Rider is broadly well-regarded as a defining document of 1960s counterculture, with its rock soundtrack, freewheeling photography, and Jack Nicholson's breakout performance earning consistent praise. Even admirers, though, have questioned whether its countercultural statement is as deep as its reputation suggests — Roger Ebert elevated it to his Great Movies list decades later, while original reviewers like Vincent Canby found it stylistically impressive but thematically overreaching.
“speaks tersely and aptly for this American age, that is both the best of times and the worst of times”
Penelope Gilliatt·The New Yorker
“pretty but lower case cinema”
Vincent Canby·The New York Times
Genres
Adventure, Drama
Cast & Crew
DirectorDennis Hopper
StarringPeter Fonda, Dennis Hopper, Jack Nicholson, Antonio Mendoza, Phil Spector
Easy Rider
2 Oscar Nominations·AFI #84·National Film Registry
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.
What critics thought
Easy Rider is broadly well-regarded as a defining document of 1960s counterculture, with its rock soundtrack, freewheeling photography, and Jack Nicholson's breakout performance earning consistent praise. Even admirers, though, have questioned whether its countercultural statement is as deep as its reputation suggests — Roger Ebert elevated it to his Great Movies list decades later, while original reviewers like Vincent Canby found it stylistically impressive but thematically overreaching.
“speaks tersely and aptly for this American age, that is both the best of times and the worst of times”
Penelope Gilliatt·The New Yorker
“pretty but lower case cinema”
Vincent Canby·The New York Times
Genres
Adventure, Drama
Cast & Crew
DirectorDennis Hopper
StarringPeter Fonda, Dennis Hopper, Jack Nicholson, Antonio Mendoza, Phil Spector
Rent/Purchase