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Aspect Ratio: 1.85:1
Audience Rating: R (Restricted)
Binding: DVD
Brand: FONDA,PETER
EAN: 9781404951365
Format: AC-3, Closed-captioned, Color, Dolby, DVD-Video, Special Edition, Subtitled, Widescreen, NTSC
ISBN: 1404951369
Label: Sony Pictures
Manufacturer: Sony Pictures
Number Of Items: 2
Publisher: Sony Pictures
Region Code: 99
Release Date: September 28, 2004
Running Time: 95 minutes
Sales Rank: 11261
Studio: Sony Pictures
Theatrical Release Date: 1969
Editorial Review:
Description:
In honor of this pop-culture film classic comes this 35th Anniversary Edition. Including a British Film Institute Modern Classic book 'Easy Rider' by Lee Hill (provides an in-depth look at the film) and an exclusive CD song-track in all new packing with an outercase no DVD collector will be able to resist. All new special packaging! Includes exclusive song-track CD with music from the movie. Includes exclusive British Film Institute Modern Classic book 'Easy Rider'- a $12.95 value.
Amazon.com essential video:
This box-office hit from 1969 is an important pioneer of the American independent cinema movement, and a generational touchstone to boot. Peter Fonda and Dennis Hopper play hippie motorcyclists crossing the Southwest and encountering a crazy quilt of good and bad people. Jack Nicholson turns up in a significant role as an attorney who joins their quest for awhile and articulates society's problem with freedom as Fonda's and Hopper's characters embody it. Hopper directed, essentially bringing the no-frills filmmaking methods of legendary, drive-in movie producer Roger Corman (The Little Shop of Horrors) to a serious feature for the mainstream. The film can't help but look a bit dated now (a psychedelic sequence toward the end particularly doesn't hold up well), but it retains its original power, sense of daring, and epochal impact. --Tom Keogh
Customer Reviews
Average Rating: 
Rating:  - Boring, VERY over-rated
You can watch this movie on fast forward and not miss anything. This movie is WAY over-rated... It might have been great to some people in its day - but that is now almost 40 years ago. Anyone who hasn't seen it, dont waste your time. The longer time passes the worse this movie will get. I watched it because it was a "famous" movie but as many of the older famous movies are, they just are on a completely lower level than todays great movies.
Rating:  - You had to be there to get it...
Having read many of the worst reviews, I can fully appreciate where the kids are "coming from". They don't really get it because it was too full of the symbols of the time in which the film was shot. It is obviously not a piece of timeless art intended for future generations. It was for that time and it accomplished its goal, which was to wake up a new generation to the possibilities of life. Choices. the music was current and dynamic and added to the power. Unless you are old enough, or have submerged ... Read More
Rating: - Classic
I love the bikes in the movie. The special feature w/ the interviews of the actors was really interesting.
Rating:  - Wow! What A Great Film! Too Bad About the DVD!
This is certainly the best independent film ever made and is also one of the best films ever. This film succeeds in documenting the 60s counter-culture a.k.a. hippy generation very well and explores even deeper issues in addressing questions such as what is freedom and does it really exist in the "land of the free and the home of the brave?" Fonda and Hopper play a couple of bikers who ironically in trying to live a free life become hated by the mainstream who fear what this freedom represents. This ... Read More
Rating: - Still The Best
Still one of the best "buddy"/"anti-establishment" movies of all time. This review is not going to cover anything that hasn't already been covered. In short, AMAZING, EXCELLENT, OUTSTANDING!!!
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