Would you drop acid with Bruce Dern?
Before Peter Fonda made the trailblazing Easy Rider with his co-star Dennis Hopper, he was already a counterculture icon from The Trip, in the role of Paul Grove, a TV commercial director on the verge of a divorce from Sally (Susan Strasberg) who falls in with some Hollywood hippy-dippy types, and eventually goes on his first cosmic journey of LSD at Bruce Dern’s pad (see above). The rest of the film is that long day’s journey through a burning brain where reality and illusion jam on a merry-go-round. It’s Blowup for the Monkees generation, it’s Chappaqua filmed as a cartoon.