Easy Rider is a story of two men who go on a road trip across the USA from Los Angeles to New Orleans on motorcycles, encountering various people along the way. It was made on a very low budget by the film's two stars themselves acting as producer and director.
There is not very much plot to the film. They travel and encounter various people, a drug lord played by Phil Spector, a Christian farmer with a Mexican wife and many children, a group of utterly daft hippies in a commune, a drunkard lawyer played by Jack Nicholson, and finally two prostitutes in New Orleans played by Toni Basil and. Karen Black, before ending up being randomly killed by "rednecks" for some reason or another.
Why is this film great? It's not the cast of characters or the story, but the travelogue parts with the music, the scenery, and the motorcycles.
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