The movie follows two young 'hippie' bikers, Wyatt and Billy, as they set off on a cross-country trek to New Orleans after scoring cocaine in Mexico, then re-selling it in California. Their journey discloses a period of counterculture and intolerance through spectacular landscapes.
16 August 1918, Detroit, Michigan, USA
26 December 1939, New York City, New York, USA
16 January 1938, Youngstown, Ohio, USA
27 January 1964, Los Angeles, California, USA
27 October 1945, Park Ridge, Illinois, USA
23 February 1940, New York City, New York, USA
21 August 1930, Estherville, Iowa, USA
19 November 1942, Los Angeles, California, USA
22 September 1943, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, USA
22 April 1937, Neptune, New Jersey, USA
June 03, 2016
"Easy Rider," even for those uninterested in the legacy of 1960s counterculture, punches the viewer in the gut with its hopelessness and emptiness.
June 26, 2007
The film may be a relic now, but it is a fascinating souvenir -- particularly in its narcissism and fatalism -- of how the hippie movement thought of itself.
January 26, 2006
[A] simplistic amalgam of travelogue and the zoom lens.
March 04, 2013
Fonda and Hopper, it should by this time go without saying, give immense performances.
May 20, 2003
Hopper, Fonda and their friends went out into America looking for a movie and found instead a small, pious statement (upper case) about our society (upper case), which is sick (upper case). It's pretty but lower case cinema.
March 11, 2013
Though deserving of its esteemed status on account of the cinematic revolution it spawned, the feature itself is something of a relic. But since when isn't it fascinating to reflect on the fossils of the past?
February 25, 2013
Age hasn't been kind to it but Easy Rider is still a trip.
June 17, 2014
Iconic 1969 road trip movie with violence, drugs, sex.
May 09, 2016
Easy Rider, is not only emblematic of independent American cinema, but, released in 1969, is the definitive statement on the death of the 60s.
February 25, 2013
This is a glorious widescreen vision of a hot and bothered America, at once beautiful and lost. Yes, it has dated, but its pessimistic last gasp ("We blew it...") still carries a prescient sting.
June 26, 2007
None of the forced violence, lawlessness, rapist, gratuitous speed aspects of the motorbike clan in this perceptive film.
March 25, 2003
It plays today more as a period piece than as living cinema, but it captures so surely the tone and look of that moment in time.
