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Synopsis: 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 t
Genre: Adventure, Drama
Director(s): Dennis Hopper
Production: Columbia Pictures
  Nominated for 2 Oscars. Another 8 wins & 12 nominations.
 
IMDB:
7.4
Metacritic:
86
Rotten Tomatoes:
89%
R
Year:
1969
95 min
3,368 Views


Pardon me!

I've played communes all...

Out! Out! Out!

The evil eye on this place!

A double whammy for all of you!

- When you lie with dogs, you get fleas.

- Come, my dear.

We won't play here.

Wow. Wow. Wow.

Get out.

I like you.

What happened here is, these people

got here late in the summer.

Too late to plant.

But the weather was beautiful,

it was easy living, everything was fine.

Then came that winter.

Forty or fifty of them

living in this one- room place down here.

Nothing to eat. Starving.

Out by the road looking for dead horses.

Anything they could get a hold of.

There's 18 or 20 of them left,

and they're city kids... look at them.

But they're getting this crop in...

and they're gonna stay here

till it's harvested.

Do you get much rain here, man?

I guess we're gonna

have to dance for that.

Look at this, man.

A seashell, man.

See that?

This is nothing but sand.

They ain't gonna grow anything here.

They're gonna make it.

Dig, man.

They're gonna make it.

We have planted our seeds.

We ask...

that our efforts be worthy...

to produce simple food...

for our simple taste.

We ask that our efforts...

be rewarded.

We thank You for the food we eat

from other hands...

that we may share it

with our fellow man...

and be even more generous...

when it is from our own.

Thank You for a place...

to make a stand.

Amen.

Let's eat.

Ah, hark, ye gentles!

Hark, ye all!

The time has come

for a curtain call.

How do you wear your hair

Does your hair hang low

Do you tie it in a ribbon

Do you tie it in a bow

Do you wear it over your shoulder

like a Continental soldier

Does your hair hang low

Are you an Aquarius?

Pisces?

I guessed right.

Do you like our place here?

Yeah.

We will kill the old red rooster

We will kill the old red rooster

when she comes

We'll all go to greet her

when she comes

We will all have chicken and dumplings

when she comes

Who sent you?

Does your hair hang low

Do you tie it in a ribbon

Do you tie it in a bow

Do you throw it over your shoulder

like a Continental soldier

Does your hair hang low

Look, I gotta get out of here, man.

We got things we wanna do, man.

I gotta get out of here, man.

Could you take me and my friend

over across the canyon?

Yeah, anything.

It won't be out of your way.

Honest.

It's all right.

We're not no travelin' bureau.

Why don't they get their own ride?

We're eating their food.

All right.

- Get 'em together, though, man.

- Right.

More water! More water!

Well, I'd rather go and journey

Where the diamond crescent's glowing

And run across the valley

Beneath the sacred mountain

And wander through the forest

Where the trees have leaves of prisms

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Peter Fonda

Peter Henry Fonda (born February 23, 1940) is an American actor. He is the son of Henry Fonda, younger brother of Jane Fonda, and father of Bridget and Justin Fonda (by first wife Susan Brewer, stepdaughter of Noah Dietrich). Fonda was a part of the counterculture of the 1960s.He was nominated for the Academy Award for Best Original Screenplay for Easy Rider (1969), and the Academy Award for Best Actor for Ulee's Gold (1997). For the latter, he won the Golden Globe Award for Best Actor – Motion Picture Drama. Fonda also won the Golden Globe Award for Best Supporting Actor – Series, Miniseries or Television Film for The Passion of Ayn Rand (1999). more…

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