The down-and-dirty directorial debut of former clean-cut teen star Dennis Hopper, Easy Rider heralded the arrival of a new voice in film, one pitched angrily against the mainstream. After the film's cross-country journey with its radical, New Wave style editing, outsider-rock soundtrack, revelatory performance by a young Jack Nicholson, and explosive ending, the American road trip would never be the same.

Wyatt (Peter Fonda) and Billy (Dennis Hopper), two Harley-riding hippies, complete a drug deal in Southern California and decide to travel cross-country in search of spiritual truth.

Reviews
"It succeeds where it matters most, in communicating a yearning vision of a different way of life, in an America seen as a vast, unexplored repository of beauty, optimism and adventure." –Sight and Sound

"It plays today more as a period piece than as living cinema, but it captures so surely the tone and look of that moment in time." –Roger Ebert