Easy Rider

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  • Easy Rider -- Two drifters (Peter Fonda and Dennis Hopper), with a wad of cash from a drug transaction, motorcycle through the Southwest encountering a disparate variety of Americans (standout is Jack Nicholson as a small-town lawyer) on their way to a tragic end in New Orleans. Also directed by Hopper, the journey may lead nowhere but the beauty of the natural landscape provides a lyrical context for this excursion through the troubled byways of contemporary American life. Thoughtful and provocative, it is marred by some graphic violence, a foggy mixture of sex and religion and a benign view of drugs. (A-IV) (R) 1969




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    The classifications are as follows:

    A-I -- general patronage;
    A-II -- adults and adolescents;
    A-III -- adults;
    L -- limited adult audience, films whose problematic content many adults would find troubling. L replaces the previous classification, A-IV.
    O -- morally offensive.

    Note: Some movies previously were designated A-IV. Older films with this classification should be regarded as classified L.

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