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Experience the real 60s counterculture in this compelling mixture of drugs, sex and armchair politics. Academy Award winner Jack Nicholson (Best Actor, One Flew Over the Cuckoo’s Nest, 1975; Best Supporting Actor, Terms of Endearment, 1983; Best Actor, As Good As It Gets, 1997) stars with Peter Fonda and Dennis Hopper (who also directs) in this unconventional classic which Time Magazine hails as one of the ten most important pictures of the decade. Nominated for an Academy Award (1969) for Best Original Screenplay (written by Peter Fonda, Dennis Hopper and Terry Southern), EASY RIDER continues to touch a chord with fans everywhere. BLU-RAY SPECIAL EDITION FEATURES: Restored high-definition digital transfer, supervised by director of photography Lszl Kovcs, with uncompressed monaural soundtrack Alternate 2.0 and 5.1 surround soundtracks, presented in DTS-HD Master Audio Two audio commentaries, one from 2009, featuring actor-director-writer Dennis Hopper, and the other from 1995, featuring Hopper, actor-writer Peter Fonda, and production manager Paul Lewis Born to Be Wild (1995) and Easy Rider: Shaking the Cage (1999), documentaries about the making and history of the film Television excerpts showing Hopper and Fonda at the Cannes Film Festival in 1969 Interview from 2010 with BBS Productions co-founder Steve Blauner Theatrical trailers An essay by film critic Matt Zoller Seitz