The Source
Release Date: 1999-01-23
Overview: Traces the Beats from Allen Ginsberg and Jack Kerouac's meeting in 1944 at Columbia University to the deaths of Ginsberg and William S. Burroughs in 1997. Three actors provide dramatic interpretations of the work of these three writers, and the film chronicles their friendships, their arrival into American consciousness, their travels, frequent parodies, Kerouac's death, and Ginsberg's politicization. Their movement connects with bebop, John Cage's music, abstract expressionism, and living theater. In recent interviews, Ginsberg, Burroughs, Kesey, Ferlinghetti, Mailer, Jerry Garcia, Tom Hayden, Gary Snyder, Ed Sanders, and others measure the Beats' meaning and impact.
Rating: 5.2 / 10
Cast
Johnny Depp
as Jack Kerouac
Dennis Hopper
as William S. Burroughs
John Turturro
as Allen Ginsberg
Allen Ginsberg
as Self (archive footage)
William S. Burroughs
as Self (archive footage)
Crew
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Mark Apostolon - Associate Producer
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James Cady - Associate Producer
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David Amram - Sound
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Philip Glass - Sound
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Chuck Workman - Writers' Production
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