This article refers to the film. For the slang term, please visit Easy rider . Easy Rider, a 1969 road movie written by Peter Fonda, Dennis Hopper and Terry Southern, depicts two bikers who travel through the American Southwest and South and experience its land and people. The movie stars Fonda, Hopper, and Jack Nicholson and was produced by Fonda and directed by Hopper. Southern also came up with the title, which borrows the slang term easy rider, commonly used in the 1960s to refer to a man who is supported financially by his girlfriend. Synopsis The protagonists are two bikers named Wyatt, nicknamed 'Captain America' (Fonda), and Billy (Hopper). Wyatt dresses in American flag-adorned leather, while Billy dresses in Native American-style buckskin pants and shirts and a bushman hat.) enjoys the quality of Wyatt and Billy's cocaine.]]After smuggling drugs from Mexico to Los Angeles, Wy