Easy Rider
1969, R, 94 min.
Directed by Dennis Hopper, Narrated by , Voices by , Starring Dennis Hopper, Peter Fonda, Jack Nicholson, Karen Black, Luke Askew, Toni Basil.

This is the movie by which Hollywood discovered the commercial power of “youth culture.” Fonda and Hopper’s now-classic film hit the old guard with the force of a rifle shot to the head. Today, Easy Rider may be seen as an old hippies’ road movie, but once upon a time it was the road least traveled. The film also marked a professional breakthrough in popularity for Jack Nicholson.

This article appears in August 18 • 2000.

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Marjorie Baumgarten is a film critic and contributing writer at The Austin Chronicle, where she has worked in many capacities since the paper's founding in 1981. She served as the Chronicle's Film Reviews editor for 25 years.