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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Paul (Peter Fonda) is a TV commercial director whose wife, Sally (Susan Strasberg), has left him. Plunged into a personality crisis, he asks his friend John (Bruce Dern), a self-styled guru and advocate of LSD, to guide him on his first trip. They go to a party at their friend Max's (Dennis Hopper), score some acid and return to John's to let the drug take its course. There, Paul is plunged into a mind-altering realm of extreme beauty and sheer terror, the like of which he has never known before. (Signal One Entertainment)
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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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