Easy Rider (1969)


Peter Fonda             Wyatt
Dennis Hopper           Billy
Antonio Mendoza         Jesus
Phil Spector            Connection
Mac Mashourian          Bodyguard
Warren Finnerty         Rancher
Tita Colorado           Rancher's Wife
Luke Askew              Stranger on Highway
Luana Anders            Lisa
Sabrina Scharf          Sarah
Sandy Wyeth             Joanne
Robert Walker Jr        Jack

Directed by:            Dennis Hopper
Produced by:            Bert Schneider, Peter Fonda, William Hayward


After scoring cocaine in Mexico, then re-selling it in California, two bikers set off on a cross-country 
trek to New Orleans.

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Wyatt and Billy are two motorcycle riders (bikers) on their way to Mardis Gras, and encounter hitchhikers, 
a drunken lawyer, a jail cell, a whorehouse and the death of a friend.

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Two young "hippie" bikers, Wyatt and Billy sell some dope in Southern California, stash their money away in 
their gas-tank and set off for a trip across America, on their own personal odyssey looking for a way to lead 
their lives. On the journey they encounter bigotry and hatred from small-town communities who despise and fear 
their non-conformism. However Wyatt and Billy also discover people attempting 'alternative lifestyles' who are 
resisting this narrow-mindedness, there is always a question mark over the future survival of these drop-out 
groups. The gentle hippie community who thank God for 'a place to stand' are living their own unreal dream. The 
rancher they encounter and his Mexican wife are hard-pushed to make ends meet. Even LSD turns sour when the trip 
is a bad one. Death comes to seem the only freedom. When they arrive at a diner in a small town, they are insulted 
by the local rednecks as weirdo degenerates. They are arrested on some minor pretext by the local sheriff and 
thrown in jail where they meet George Hanson, a liberal alcoholic lawyer. He gets them out and decides to join 
them on their trip to New Orleans in time for Mardi Gras.

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Two motorcycle riders (bikers) on their way to Mardis Gras encounter hitchhikers, a drunken lawyer, a jail cell, 
a whorehouse and the death of a friend.

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The partners and friends Wyatt and Billy buy drugs in Mexico and deal in Los Angeles, raising money to travel to 
the Mardi Grass in New Orleans in their bikes. They cross their country disclosing a period of counterculture and 
intolerance through spectacular landscapes.