Easy Rider

Easy Rider is a 1969 road movie starring Peter Fonda, Dennis Hopper, and Jack Nicholson, about a motorcycle ride from Los Angeles to New Orleans. The film is a canonical work of the postwar biker and hippie cultures, and revived the Harley-Davidson motorcycle as an icon of freedom.

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"You know, this used to be a helluva good country. I can't understand what's gone wrong with it."

- George Hanson

Easy Rider is an image of Sixties counterculture at both its best and worst. The story of "A man went looking for America. And couldn't find it anywhere..." is an archetypal roadtrip film and an emblem of motorcycle culture. Travellers go far and wide to journey the same routes as its protagonists, but hopefully not meet the same fates.

Wyatt (Peter Fonda) and Billy (Hopper) are freewheeling motorcyclists who smuggle cocaine from Tijuana to Los Angeles. With the cash stuffed in Wyatt's chopper, they aim to reach New Orleans for the Mardi Gras festival. They pick up a hippie hitchhiker who takes them to their commune, with free love and drugs.