EASY RIDER


 "EASY RIDER" --- (1969) --- 

SYNOPSIS: "Wyatt and Billy, two Harley-riding hippies, complete a drug deal in Southern California and decide to travel cross-country in search of spiritual truth. On their journey, they experience bigotry and hatred from the inhabitants of small-town America and also meet with other travelers seeking alternative lifestyles. After a terrifying drug experience in New Orleans, the two travelers wonder if they will ever find a way to live peacefully in America."
STARRING: Dennis Hopper, Peter Fonda, Jack Nicholson, Karen Black, Toni Basil, Mac Mashourian, Phil Spector and Robert Walker.
SCREENPLAY: Peter Fonda, Dennis Hopper and Teryy Southern.
DIRECTOR: Dennis Hopper
AWARDS & OTHER HONORS:
It was nominated for two (2) Academy Awards but won neither.
It was nominated for nineteen (19) additional awards, by various entities, and won nine (9) of them.
In 1998, it was selected for preservation by the National Film Registry at The Library of Congress.
In April 2019, a restored version of the film was selected to be shown in the Cannes Classics section at the 2019 Cannes Film Festival.

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