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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
3,394 Views


And break the light in colors

That no one knows the names of

And when it's time I'll go and wait

Beside a legendary fountain

Till I see the form reflected

In its clear and jewelled waters

And if you think I'm ready

You may lead me to the chasm

Where the rivers of our vision

Flow into one another

I will want to dive beneath

The white cascading waters

She may beg, she may plead

She may argue with her logic

And mention all the things I learned

That really have no value

In the end, she will surely know

I wasn't born to follow

When you get to the right place

with the right people...

quarter this.

You know,

this could be the right place.

Your time's running out.

If we're going, let's go!

Yeah.

I'm hip about time.

But I gotta go.

"Parading without a permit"?

You gotta be kidding!

Do you know who this is?

This is Captain America! I'm Billy!

Hey, we're headliners, baby!

We played every fair in this part

of the country, and for top dollar too!

Weirdo hicks, man.

A bunch of weirdo hicks.

"Parading without a permit"!

Man!

Oh, no.

What did I do now?

Oh, what am I gonna do now?

Oh, my head.

All right, George,

what are you gonna do now?

I mean, you promised these people.

You promised these people.

They ain't gonna believe you, George.

Hey, man, would you mind?

You just woke my friend up.

Oh. Yeah, well...

I'm real sorry.

I didn't realize.

I didn't realize.

My head.

If you don't shut your mouth,

you ain't gonna have a head.

I see you're up, Mr. Hanson.

You'll feel a lot better after this.

Oh.

Thank you, Bob.

I guess I really tied one on

last night.

Must have had

a hell of a good time.

Wish I could remember it.

Hey, man, you don't think

you could get me a cigarette, do you?

You animals ain't smart enough

to play with fire.

Oh, no, that's all right, Bob.

They're good boys.

You can give them a cigarette.

Thanks, mister.

- You got a match?

- Yeah.

Thank you, Bob.

I'm sorry about, you know,

the misunderstanding.

Oh, that's all right.

There was no misunderstanding.

We're all in the same cage here.

You must be some important dude, man,

to get that treatment.

"Dude"?

What does he mean, "dude"?

Dude ranch?

"Dude" means...

a nice guy.

A regular sort of person.

Well, you boys don't look like

you're from this part of the country.

You're lucky I'm here to see

that you don't get into anything.

"Anything"?

They got this here...

scissor-happy, "beautify America" thing

going on around here.

They're trying to make everybody

look like Yul Brynner.

They used rusty razor blades...

on the last two longhairs

they brought in here...

and I wasn't here to protect 'em.

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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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