Directed by:
Roger CormanScreenplay:
Jack NicholsonCinematography:
Archie R. DalzellCast:
Peter Fonda, Susan Strasberg, Bruce Dern, Dennis Hopper, Salli Sachse, Barboura Morris, Judy Lang, Dick Miller, Luana Anders, Roger Arroyo, Peter Bogdanovich (more)VOD (1)
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Peter Fonda stars in this joyously psychedelic freak-out from legendary low-budget director Roger Corman. It's a lysergic time capsule set in swinging 1967 Los Angeles, as Paul (Fonda), a commercial director in the midst of a divorce, takes time out to have his first LSD experience. Bruce Dern is John, his "guide," and Dennis Hopper is their dealer. Fellow hipster Jack Nicholson wrote the screenplay. Paul's hallucinations include painted women wandering along a beach, cloaked horseback riders, kaleidoscopic colour patterns, a dwarf (Angelo Rossitto) on a merry-go-round, and his own death. Finally, Paul freaks out and hits the streets, where he digs some go-go dancing at a club and some spinning laundry at the Laundromat. Too much! Susan Strasberg plays his wife. Sali Sachse and Judy Lang are a couple of groovy women he meets along the way. Corman regulars Jonathan Haze, Barboura Morris, and Luana Anders also appear, and look fast for Peter Bogdanovich at a party. (official distributor synopsis)
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Corman's feature-length screensaver earned its status as a cult movie largely due not only to its subject matter, but primarily its context. It was here that Jack Nicholson, Peter Fonda and Dennis Hopper met each other and, during their joint preparation in the style of Stanislavski, they laid the groundwork for their truly cult project, Easy Rider. Producer Roger Corman, who also handled directing duties, put forth a study group with LSD, so Nicholson’s screenplay for this film about nothing fit right in with his obsession with Edgar Allan Poe. The Trip combines within itself Corman’s undeniable craftsmanship, his feel for the commercially exploitable phenomena of the day, and his ability to exploit enthusiastic young talents with the illusion that they were making their own film.
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