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starring: Nick Nolte, Sissy Spacek, John Heard, Ray Sharkey, Ann Dusenberrydirected by: John Byrum
Audience Rating: R (Restricted)
Binding: VHS Tape
EAN: 9786300271739
Format: Color, HiFi Sound, NTSC
ISBN: 6300271730
Label: Warner Home Video
Manufacturer: Warner Home Video
Number Of Items: 1
Publisher: Warner Home Video
Release Date: January 27, 1993
Running Time: 105 minutes
Sales Rank: 1957
Studio: Warner Home Video
Theatrical Release Date: 1980
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Editorial Review:
Amazon.com:
For a man who affected two generations of the counterculture--the beatniks and the hippies that followed them--there's been surprisingly little written by Neal Cassady, despite the fact that he served as muse to both Jack Kerouac and Ken Kesey. In this fictionalized film, Nick Nolte plays Cassady, a man with huge appetites for all that life has to offer. He befriends the confused, questing Kerouac (John Heard), imparts wisdom, and helps Kerouac take on the world on his own terms--and write On the Road. But their friendship is tested by the relationship they share with the woman who would eventually become Cassady's wife, Caroline (played by Sissy Spacek). For a film about two such freewheeling characters, there's surprisingly little real life to this film, though Nolte attacks the role with vigor. Director John Byrum would go on to butcher The Razor's Edge with Bill Murray a few years later. --Marshall Fine
Customer Reviews
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Rating: - angina
If there is a great movie to be made about Jack Kerouac, and Neal and Carolyn Cassidy, this aint it. "Suggested" by Carolyn's memoirs, writer/director John Byrum's film degenerates into yet another adulterous husband saga. The idea that Carolyn has is that Neal is the muse for Kerouac's writing but since Jack knew Neal and had written On The Road before they met her, Carolyn's insight appears to be limited to the time Neal married her and they lived miserably in suburbia until Jack joined them ... Read More
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