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
Movies have been evaluated by the U.S. Conference of Catholic
Bishop's Office for Film and Broadcasting according to artistic
merit and moral suitability. The reviews include the USCCB rating,
the Motion Picture Association of America rating, and a brief
synopsis of the movie.
The classifications are as follows:
- A-I -- general patronage;
- A-II -- adults and adolescents;
- A-III -- adults;
- A-IV**
- L -- limited adult audience, films whose problematic content many adults would find troubling. L replaces the previous classification, A-IV.
- O -- morally offensive.
** Discontinued classification. All archived movies that were originally in the A-IV category are now classified as L.