The Bikeriders: To Kathy (Comer), Benny (Butler) was everything she wanted in a man, handsome, quietly romantic, and wild. She slipped into Benny’s life with the ease of a merge into 3 a.m. traffic, marrying him 5 weeks after first meeting him.

Benny was an enigmatic cross between Peter Fonda’s Easy Rider’s Captain America aka Wyatt and James Dean’s, Jim Stark in Rebel Without a Cause. He didn’t fit into life but Kathy, his bike and the Vandals’ motorcycle club was his universe except he couldn’t resolve their correct order of importance.

Trivia: In real life, the motorcycle gang that inspired the Vandals in the movie “The Bikeriders” was the Chicago Outlaws Motorcycle Club, a criminal enterprise. The film is loosely based on that club in which Outlaw member Danny Lyon dramatized in his 1968 photobook, ‘The Bikeriders.’

Genre:  Action—Biographical–Crime–Drama—Historical

Directed by: Jeff Nichols

Screenplay by: Jeff Nichols

Music by:  David Wingo

Cast: Jodie Comer, Austin Butler, Tom Hardy

Film Locations:  Cincinnati, Ohio

Els: 7.5/10

IMDb:  6.7/10

Rotten Tomatoes Critics:  80

Rotten Tomatoes Audience:  75

Metacritic Metascore: 70

Metacritic User Score:  6.3/10

Theaters: 21 June 2024

Runtime: 116 minutes

Budget:  $30-40 million

Worldwide Box Office:  $35.8 million

Source: IMDb. Rotten Tomatoes. Metacritic. History vs Hollywood. Graphic: Movie Poster, Focus Features.