Easy Rider Dvd 1969

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 Amazon.com