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Director:
Noah Buschel
Writer:
Noah Buschel (writer)
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Genre:
Biography | Drama more
Tagline:
Going on the road made him a legend. Now he just has to live it down.
Plot:
The story of what happened to Neal Cassady after Jack Kerouac's "On The Road" came out. Deals primarily with Neal's relationship to his fictional alter-ego, Dean Moriarty. full summary | full synopsis
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Cast

  (Cast overview, first billed only)
Tate Donovan ... Neal Cassady

Amy Ryan ... Carolyn Cassady

Glenn Fitzgerald ... Jack Kerouac

Chris Bauer ... Ken Kesey

Hanna Hall ... Sophie Bloom (as Hanna R. Hall)
Josh Hamilton ... Crook Sherman
Brendan Sexton III ... Little Big
Liza Weil ... Doris Delay
Merritt Wever ... Mountain Girl
Stephen Adly Guirgis ... Cassady Senior

Paz de la Huerta ... Tonya Novak
Shareeka Epps ... Annie Gibson

Josh Pais ... Calbert Holt

Olek Krupa ... Julian Nabokov
Christopher McCann ... Hank Anderson
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Additional Details

Runtime:
80 min
Country:
USA
Language:
English

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References Rebel Without a Cause (1955) more
Soundtrack:
Christmas Ain't Like Christmas Anymore more

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Easily Best Film Ever Made About The Beats, 21 June 2009
Author: hillflix

I wouldn't call this movie a biopic. More like an old fashioned moral fable or a dime store story based on the later years of Kerouac's muse, Neal Cassady. It shifts from pulp to poem to 50's melodrama to soap opera to comic book style to realism. More than being about Cowboy Neal, it's about mythology. And what happens to real people when myth status is hoisted upon them. Like an episode of the Twilight Zone, the answers to these questions come in all kinds of forms and often upside-down.

Tate Donovan has never ever been this swinging. The rest of the cast is very stellar also. Like True Blood's Andy as Ken Kesey. And of course, Amy Ryan.

Glenn Fitzgerald wouldn't have been my pick as Jack, but he actually comes through by the end. He brings out more of the poet Jack, less of the lumberjack. Kind of like if Monty Clift had played Kerouac.

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