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