On the Road
Overview
Jack Kerouac's seminal pseudo-autobiography finally heads to the big screen thanks to director Walter Salles Jr. (THE MOTORCYCLE DIARIES) and executive producer Francis Ford Coppola. The tale is semi-based on the author's trips across America, with fiction intertwining with reportedly real events and people met along the way. The starring cast includes Kristen Stewart, Sam Riley, and Kirsten Dunst. José Rivera provides the adaptation.
Awards:
Main Cast & Crew:
Walter Salles - Director
Walter Salles, Jr. - Director
Sam Riley
Garrett Hedlund
Kirsten Dunst
Viggo Mortensen
Kristen Stewart
Marie-Ginette Guay
Amy Adams
Alice Braga
Tom Sturridge
Elisabeth Moss
Details
- Format: DVD
- Run Time: 124
- UPC: 030306986692
- Genre: ACTION / ADVENTURE
- Rating: R
- Release Date: August 2013
Movie Reviews
Reviews:
"[A] vibrantly visualized period piece about the birth of the American counterculture." - 05/23/2012 Hollywood Reporter
3 stars out of 5 -- "Loyal to the spirit of Kerouac's book, there are times when this intoxicating brew burns across the screen with feverish passion..." - 11/01/2012 Total Film
"ON THE ROAD is rich with evocative period atmosphere and anchored by a trio of compellingly lived-in performances from Sam Riley, Garrett Hedlund, and Kristen Stewart." - 12/13/2012 Box Office
"Salles has lovingly crafted a poetic, sensitive, achingly romantic version of the Kerouac book that captures the evanescence of its characters' existence..." - 12/20/2012 Los Angeles Times
"America the Beautiful has rarely looked more ripe for exploration than it does in ON THE ROAD....The movie resurrects a perennial frontier dream and invites you to barrel into the unknown with its Beat Generation legends." - 12/21/2012 New York Times
"[Stewart's] a live wire." - 01/17/2013 Rolling Stone
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