Easy Rider is a film that stars Peter Fonda and Dennis Hopper as two outlandish hippies who love nothing more than to break the law. These biker hippies begin their crime spree by selling cocaine that they have imported from Mexico into Los Angeles. They are eventually arrested for an unrelated crime and quickly become friends with a town drunk named George Hanson, played by Jack Nicholson. The group continues to travel throughout the south into New Orleans, where they meet many young women and continue to use drugs. They continue to find trouble wherever they go and it does not stop short to potentially losing their lives. The movie Easy Rider was written to follow the common hippie lifestyle during the early to late 1960s.The movie was first released in theaters in 1969 and came to DVD in 1998, as a special edition with remastering and deleted scenes. The Easy Rider DVD is available in widescreen and standard edition and is closed captioned for the hearing impaired.