Easy Rider (35th Anniversary Deluxe Edition) |  | Actors: Peter Fonda, Dennis Hopper, Jack Nicholson, Luke Askew, Warren Finnerty
Studio: Sony Pictures
Category: DVD
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Rating:  196 reviews
Sales Rank: 16499
Format: AC-3, Closed-captioned, Color, Dolby, DVD, Special Edition, Subtitled, Widescreen, NTSC
Languages: English (Original Language), English (Subtitled), Spanish (Subtitled), Portuguese (Subtitled), Thai (Subtitled), Korean (Subtitled)
Rating: R (Restricted)
Region: 99
Aspect Ratio: 1.85:1
Number Of Discs: 2
Running Time: 95 Minutes
Shipping Weight (lbs): 0.7
Dimensions (in): 7.4 x 5.4 x 0.9
MPN: D03937D
ISBN: 1404951369
UPC: 043396039377
EAN: 9781404951365
ASIN: B0002O7XWC
Theatrical Release Date: 1969
Release Date: September 28, 2004
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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
Product Description
Academy Award® winner Jack Nicholson (Best Actor One Flew Over The Cuckoo's Nest 1975) stars with Peter Fonda and Dennis Hopper (who also directs) in this unconventional classic which Time Magazine hails as "one of the ten most important pictures of the decade." Experience the real uncensored '60s counterculture in this compelling mixture of drugs sex and armchair politics. In the role that catapulted him to stardom Jack Nicholson portrays an alcoholic attorney who hooks up with two part-time drug-dealing motorcyclists (Fonda and Hopper) in search of their "American Dream." Heading from California to New Orleans they sample the highs and lows of America the beautiful in a stoned-out quest for life's true meaning. Nominated for an Academy Award® (1969) for Best Screenplay (written by Peter Fonda Dennis Hopper and Terry Southern) Easy Rider continues to touch a chord with audiences of all ages.System Requirements:Running Time: 95 Min.Format: DVD MOVIE Genre: DRAMA Rating: R UPC: 043396039377 Manufacturer No: 03937
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 Awesome Easy Rider! March 11, 2010
Sharon Ann Ray (Burlington, NC)
I remember seeing this movie when it first came out. I'm an old hippie, so I really enjoyed the crazy memories that this movie evoked. Jack Nickolson is so funny and, of course, Peter Honda and Dennis Hopper are classic! If you want to know what it was really like in the 1960s, this is the movie for you! Warning! There is some bad language. But otherwise a great, classic, and fairly accurate movie about the counterculture and just wanting to be free. Highly recommend this movie. You gotta see it at least once.
Good March 4, 2010
Jaclyn M. McIntire
DVD quality was in good shape, along with the case. No scratches or cracks.
Easy Rider Review February 3, 2010
Acacia L. Rank (Wisconsin)
0 out of 1 found this review helpful
The movie came in very good condition. It is a very great movie to watch. I love the motorcycles and freedom. I want to do that as well!
Great memories brought back with the Blu-Ray 40th East Rider Anniversary December 3, 2009
P. C. (Whitby, Ontario, CA)
1 out of 1 found this review helpful
It is great to have the classic Easy Rider now on Blu-Ray. The enhanced picture and sound quality really makes this movie a collector's choice if you are from that era. 40 years ago, I saw the Easy Rider movie in a Drive-In Theater on my Triumph motorcycle ! What a great memory! Now I watch it on our 106" Home Theater, and my Harley is parked in the garage!
 ICONIC MESSAGE ABOUT AMERICA'S IDENTITY STILL TRUE November 10, 2009
Robin Simmons (Palm Springs area, CA United States)
2 out of 3 found this review helpful
Sitting in a USC screening room with Peter Fonda, I remember seeing this iconic film before it was released. At the time, I was dealing with my application for Conscientious Objector status with the draft board. I was also being hassled by the FBI as an outspoken critic of the Viet Nam war.
The movie poster of Fonda as Captain America with a flag-embossed jacket riding on a big bike with the caption "A man went looking for American and couldn't find it anywhere" resonated with me. And at the end, when the redneck in the pickup with the bulging tumor shoots "Billy" and "Wyatt (Fonda and Dennis Hopper)" I was incensed. This was the same world I was in. The same prejudice. The same hate. Reel life was real life.
This film was the first big "youth movie" that perfectly targeted its already alienated audience. It was a bulls-eye. For me, it was a brave movie because I knew that the creative team of writer Terry Southern, director Dennis Hopper, actors Jack Nicholson and Peter Fonda truly believed what they put on the screen. This movie empowered me. I realized I was not alone in how I saw the world, the war and America.
As a film student, I was not just interested in film as propaganda, but also in how the film was shot. I knew it was shot for cheap - less than $500K. And it broke the rules, like the law of "consistent screen direction" by having the bikes go in all directions. There was the innovative use of music I actually listened too. Wow, the Electric Prunes! How did they know?
I wondered if the dope they smoked on screen was real and I asked Fonda. He smiled and said, "Of course." I liked that. I liked the stoned "Freedom" speech from Jack Nicholson. I believed what Jack said. Those were my words too! This movie made Jack Nicholson a star, and with the perfect audience that identified with him from the start.
I still love the joyful, free, wide-angle moving shots of the bikes on the open road with Steppenwolf's "Born to be Wild" pulsating on the soundtrack. "Get your motor running..." Oh yeah.
Watching the movie today with the hindsight of alleged maturity(?), I now see an amateurish film. Indulgent and sloppy. Silly in places. But the core question of What Is America? rings truer than ever.
Look for ward-of-the-state, convicted murderer and former record producer Phil Spector as a dope dealer in the opening scenes. (R, widescreen, 95 minutes)
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