Una película legendaria para los amantes de las motos y, sobre todo, para los admiradores de la cultura y la forma de vida de los jóvenes contestatarios de los 60. Fue la ganadora del premio al mejor director novel en el Festival de Cannes en 1969, para Dennis Hopper. Muy aclamada por el público. Una interesante visión de una época desenfadada, dominada por una serie de valores que rompían con la seriedad de los años anteriores. La música es un componente fundamental. Aparecen grupos como The Birds o Steppenwolf. Jack Nicholson realiza una aparición brillante.
Two young "hippie" bikers, Wyatt and Billy sell some dope in Southern California, stash their money away in their gas-tank and set off for a trip across America, on their own personal odyssey looking for a way to lead their lives. On the journey they encounter bigotry and hatred from small-town communities who despise and fear their non-conformism. However Wyatt and Billy also discover people attempting 'alternative lifestyles' who are resisting this narrow-mindedness, there is always a question mark over the future survival of these drop-out groups. The gentle hippie community who thank God for 'a place to stand' are living their own unreal dream. The rancher they encounter and his Mexican wife are hard-pushed to make ends meet. Even LSD turns sour when the trip is a bad one. Death comes to seem the only freedom. When they arrive at a diner in a small town, they are insulted by the local rednecks as weirdo degenerates. They are arrested on some minor pretext by the local sheriff and thrown in jail where they meet George Hanson, a liberal alcoholic lawyer. He gets them out and decides to join them on their trip to New Orleans in time for Mardi Gras.
American Film Institute ha catalogado esta película en el puesto 84 entre las 100 Mejores películas de los últimos 100 Años.
1969: 2 nominaciones al Oscar: Mejor actor de reparto (Nicholson), guión
1969: Festival de Cannes: Mejor ópera prima
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