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Garrett Hedlund
as Dean MOriarty/Neal Cassady

Sam Riley
as Sal Paradise/Jack Kerouac

Kristen Stewart
as Marylou/LuAnne Henderson

Kirsten Dunst
as Camille/Carolyn Cassady

Viggo Mortensen
as Old Bull Lee/William S. Burroughs

Amy Adams
as Jane/Joan Vollmer

Tom Sturridge
as Carlo Marx/Allen Ginsberg

Alice Braga
as Terry/Bea Franco

Marie-Ginette Guay
as Ma Paradise

Elisabeth Moss
as Galatéa Dunkle/Helen Hinkle

Danny Morgan
as Ed Dunkle/Al Hinkle

Charlie Haden

Brian Blade

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• Sep 28, 2015

  Sal Paradise goes on the road with Dean Moriarty and company. This film is less than the sum of its parts. In his effort to get the feeling of the Beat Generation, director Walter Salles has some quick edits and some free-wheeling music and some of the lines lifted from Kerouac's novel - all cinematic tricks that should work, but yet there's still something staid about this film. Perhaps it's the gravelly voiced Garrett Hedlund, who seems more focused on the image of Sal than the character, or perhaps it's the hackneyed shoe-horn of a script. Or perhaps Kerouac was never meant to be adapted. Overall, it was worth a shot, but this is one book-to-film adaptation that missed the mark.
  Jim H Super Reviewer
• Nov 06, 2013

  The best teacher is experience. Good movie! The cinematography is outstanding, and it is a sight to behold, beautiful landscapes, a smooth, delicate filmic texture. Overall, the film is light on plot. It's mostly character study and exposition. However, that's On the Road. The film is based on a Kerouac stream-of-consciousness novel. It's about his hero worship with Dean and the ultimate disillusionment he feels with him. The conflict and resolution isn't your typical climax and ending of a film. Shaken by the death of his father and discouraged by his stalled career, writer Sal Paradise goes on a road trip hoping for inspiration. While traveling, he is befriended by charismatic and fearless Dean Moriarty and Moriarty's free-spirited and seductive young wife, Marylou. Traveling across the American southwest together, they strive to break from conformity and and search the unknown, and their decisions change the very course of their lives.
  Manu G Super Reviewer
• Aug 06, 2013

  At least the film doesn't bombard the audience with a series of obvious juxtapositions (the beatniks vs. shocked normal people), but it lacks a soul. Even without emotional investment in the story, I feel like I should point out how great Garrett Hedlund is as Dean Moriarty. He stands head and shoulders above the rest.
  

  Alec B Super Reviewer
• Aug 06, 2013

  Ugh! Mopey people being miserable. That's not entertainment.
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