‘Easy Rider’ desperate journey in search of freedom and tolerance opened in New York on July 14, 1969, and set the stage for the ‘New Hollywood.’

‘Easy Rider’ desperate journey in search of freedom and tolerance opened in New York on July 14, 1969, and set the stage for the ‘New Hollywood.’
One of Jack Nicholson’s best films is ‘Five Easy Pieces,’ the 1970 classic of the disillusioned misfit, the outsider, who in the end says Fuckit and leaves his life behind in a highway rest stop.