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Easy Rider (1969) -- Two counterculture bikers travel from Los Angeles to New Orleans in search of America.
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Overview

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Director:
Writers:
Peter Fonda (written by) &
Dennis Hopper (written by) ...
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Release Date:
26 June 1969 (Sweden) more
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Tagline:
This Year It's Easy Rider more
Plot:
Two counterculture bikers travel from Los Angeles to New Orleans in search of America. full summary | full synopsis
Awards:
Nominated for 2 Oscars. Another 10 wins & 10 nominations more
User Comments:
A generation-defining counter-culture classic! more (231 total)

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Additional Details

Also Known As:
The Loners (USA) (working title)
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Runtime:
95 min
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Aspect Ratio:
1.85 : 1 more
Sound Mix:
Mono (Western Electric Sound System)
Certification:
Iceland:16 | Argentina:18 | Netherlands:12 | South Korea:15 | South Korea:18 (DVD rating) | Brazil:16 | Philippines:R-18 | Singapore:M18 | New Zealand:R16 | UK:15 (re-rating) (2009) | Australia:MA (2009 DVD rating) | Australia:M | Finland:K-16 | Norway:15 | Spain:18 | Sweden:15 | UK:18 | USA:R | West Germany:16 | Canada:R (Nova Scotia) | Canada:PG (Manitoba) | Canada:AA (Ontario) | Canada:18+ (Quebec) (original rating) | Canada:13+ (Quebec) (re-rating) (2003)

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The New Orleans cemetery is St. Louis #1, a Catholic cemetery. They didn't have permission to shoot there and Catholic audience members were shocked that the church had allowed it. Since then no other films have been allowed to shoot at St. Louis #1, unless it's a documentary and you have permission. Interview with the Vampire: The Vampire Chronicles (1994), Double Jeopardy (1999) and other films since then have all used the Lafayette Cemetery, which is Protestant. more
Goofs:
Boom mic visible: In the diner scene, a shadow on the wood panel between the booths. more
Quotes:
Captain America: It's grass. more
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Soundtrack:
Ballad of Easy Rider more

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32 out of 40 people found the following comment useful.
A generation-defining counter-culture classic!, 4 November 2002
Author: Infofreak from Perth, Australia

'Easy Rider' is much more than a 60s relic - it's still a great movie even today. I find it fascinating that Hopper and Fonda took Roger Corman material and gave it an arthouse approach influenced by Godard and the French New Wave. Combined with breathtaking visuals, a well chosen rock soundtrack and some classic, stoned, improvised dialogue this is still an impressive movie all these years later. Fonda had recently made 'The Wild Angels', Hopper the less remembered 'The Glory Stompers', and Jack Nicholson 'Hells Angels On Wheels', but 'Easy Rider' reinvented the biker movie, and things were never quite the same in Hollywood for the rest of the Seventies. The supporting cast is interesting and includes a great role for the fantastically underrated Luke Askew as the "Stranger on Highway", and cameos from the stars buddies Luana Anders ('Dementia 13') and Sabrina Scharf (Nicholson's love interest in 'Hells Angels On Wheels'), as well Karen Black and Toni Basil's New Orleans hookers, Phil Spector's coke snorting bit part, and a fleeting glimpse of a young Grizzly Adams. You either love this movie or you don't, and I'm most definitely in the former camp. A 1960s generation-defining counter-culture classic!

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