Overview: Etiquette Pictures, in partnership with the Walker Art Center in Minneapolis, brings this forgotten masterpiece - 'The American Dreamer,' a great 70's film documentary you always wished existed - to home video for the very first time in a new, Director approved 2k restoration, painstakingly reconstructed from four 16mm prints housed in the Walker Art Center's Ruben/Bentson Moving Image Collection.

DVD Verdict: Well, in truth, this movie is worth seeing only if you have a hankering to watch Dennis Hopper wander around smoking joints and or hand rolled cigarettes and spewing retarded hippie philosophy for two hours! Sorry, but that honestly just about sums this "movie" up! This film is pretty bad and the only interesting, and or funny parts, are definitely unintentional.

Hopper's rambling, near incoherent and clichéd dissertations on life, God, the mind, sexuality and more are extremely nonsensical and make him sound half mad or whole stupid most of the time. Hopper is trying way too hard to create an outlaw mythos for himself and it shows. On top of the false machismo, his attitude reeks of ego mania, or just plain mania!

Hopper talks about honesty in film, and he certainly lives by his own ideology as this is one of the least flattering artist-approved film biographies I've ever seen. Bob Dylan's "Don't Look Back" and Woody Allen's "Wild Man Blues" are the only other films about well-known celebrities I'd include on the same shelf.

Definitely worth seeing for Hopper fans so they can see what a dirt-bag he was back then. Someone like Hopper could affect so many, as did Tom Laughlin, in the "Billy Jack" series. Hopper was a man of his time, of that there is no doubt, and you either liked what he had to say or not. The thing is, and I know this for a fact, and YOU can Google it also, Hopper had stated numerous times that he was VERY embarrassed about his shenanigans in the 70's, and in particular THIS "movie." Having watched it, twice now, as it's only 81 minutes long, I'm embarrassed for him! This is a Full Screen Presentation (1:33.1) enhanced for 16x9 TVs and it comes with the Bonus Features of:

1. Scanned & Restored in 2K from 16mm Vault Elements
2. "Fighting Against the Wind" 30 minute Making-of Featurette
3. "A Long Way Home" 7 minute Preservation Featurette
4. Extensive Photograph Gallery
5. Booklet & Essay by Chris Poggiali
6. Reversible Cover
7. English SDH Subtitles

Blu ray+DVD Purchase Link

www.ETQT.com