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starring: Luana Anders, Luke Askew, Robert Ball, Tita Colorado, Warren Finnerty
Audience Rating: R (Restricted)
Binding: VHS Tape
EAN: 9786302752335
Format: Color, NTSC
ISBN: 6302752337
Label: Sony Pictures
Manufacturer: Sony Pictures
Number Of Items: 1
Publisher: Sony Pictures
Release Date: October 12, 1999
Running Time: 95 minutes
Sales Rank: 11036
Studio: Sony Pictures
Theatrical Release Date: 1969
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Editorial Review:
Amazon.com essential video:
Two cool guys head out on motorcycles in search of... well, America, but they'll settle for sex and drugs and rock & roll. There's plenty of each as Captain America (Peter Fonda) and paranoid Billy (Dennis Hopper) encounter a commune, convert a small-town drunk (Jack Nicholson) to the Grin Reefer, pick up two pretty lilies of the alley, Karen Black and Toni Basil (who hit the pop charts in the '80s--check out 'Mickey'), and get shot for having long hair. Nicholson won an Oscar nomination and Best Supporting Actor nods from the National Society of Film Critics and the New York Film Critics Circle, but his acting was better than they knew: he had to pretend to be straight and gradually get plastered in many, many takes using real weed. Find out the far wilder, funnier story behind the film in the book Easy Riders, Raging Bulls and Peter Fonda's Don't Tell Dad. --Tim Appelo
Customer Reviews
Average Rating: 
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!!!
Rating: - Still Stunning
I saw this when it first came out, and was blown away.
But hey, that was the 60s, so maybe I was just reacting to the times.
But no.
Twenty years later I was asked to teach a course called "The Journey of Life" and use it as one of the pieces.
I was afraid it would not hold up.
I am glad to say I was wrong.
It held up splendidly.
It is one of those films that transcends itself. Despite the shoestring budget and no ... Read More
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