Easy Rider: The Ride Back

Easy Rider: The Ride Back is a 2012 drama film and a prequel to the 1969 film Easy Rider. Although none of the cast or production team of the original film were involved in its production, the producers did secure the legal rights to the name.[1] The film focuses on the history of Wyatt Williams' family and takes an unusually conservative point of view compared to the countercultural tone of the original.

Easy Rider: The Ride Back
Theatrical release poster
Directed byDustin Rikert
Written byPhil Pitzer
Dustin Rikert
Produced byRick Fox
Victoria Fox
Paulino Hemmer
Bill Hutchinson
Sam McConkey
Vince Morella
Jeffery Olyan
Phil Pitzer
Dustin Rikert
Sheree J. Wilson
StarringChris Engen
Sheree J. Wilson
Jeff Fahey
Michelle Borth
Rance Howard
Lauralee Bell
Michael Nouri
CinematographyBrian Lataille
Edited byMichael J. Duthie
Andrew Robertson
Music byRon Fish
Production
company
Pan America Pictures
Release date
  • February 25, 2012 (2012-02-25) (Bike Fest Tampa)
Running time
99 minutes
CountryUnited States
LanguageEnglish

Reception

Critical reception

Leonard Maltin has called the film a bomb and has described the film as a "staggeringly bad attempt to cash in on the iconic original" and that it is "poor on all accounts."[2] Nathan Rabin called the film "surreally misguided" with "a strong pro-military message" and said "what The Room might be like if Wiseau decided he wasn’t just going to make a tribute to A Streetcar Named Desire, but rather a sequel to A Streetcar Named Desire that casts himself as Stanley Kowalski’s cooler brother Johnny, and litters the screenplay with nods to previous adventures"[3]

Paul Mavis of DVD Talk gave the film one and a half stars saying "it stinks from the head down."[4]

References
  1. McGinn, Andrew (February 19, 2010). "North alum still on odyssey to make 'Easy Rider' flick". Springfield News-Sun. Archived from the original on May 22, 2019. Retrieved July 13, 2023.
  2. Malton, Leonard (2 September 2014). Leonard Maltin's 2015 Movie Guide. Performing Arts. ISBN 978-0698183612.
  3. Rabin, Nathan (March 28, 2014). "Yes, there's an Easy Rider sequel, and yes, it's awful". The Dissolve. Retrieved July 13, 2023.
  4. Mavis, Paul (September 17, 2013). "Easy Rider: The Ride Back". DVD Talk. Retrieved July 13, 2023.


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