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There's a strange heft to its hollowness.
Robert Abele, Los Angeles Times
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Big Sur
Overview
Big Sur is a film adaptation of the Jack Kerouac autobiographical novel of the same name.
Director and cast
- Michael Polish Director
- Jean-Marc Barr as Jack Kerouac
- Josh Lucas as Neal Cassady
- Kate Bosworth as Billie
- Anthony Edwards as Lawrence Ferlinghetti
- Henry Thomas as Philip Whalen
- Patrick Fischler as Lew Welch / Dave Wain
- Radha Mitchell as Carolyn Cassady
- Stana Katic as Lenora
- Balthazar Getty as Michael McClure
- Nora Kirkpatrick as Alyson
Critics on Rotten Tomatoes
Top critics, in their words
44%
Tomatometer
Fresh
"Big Sur" cracks the code of how to adapt Jack Kerouac for the screen.
Stephen Holden, New York Times
Fresh
Sometimes feels like a beautiful illustration, rather than an adaptation, of Kerouac's prose.
John DeFore, Washington Post
Rotten
With Kerouac declaring that "the only thing that matters is the conceptions in my own mind," we're still left waiting for the filmmaker who can take us there.
Elizabeth Weitzman, New York Daily News
Rotten
Nobody's given the opportunity to do much more than brood prettily and occasionally shout carpe diembromides into the pounding surf.
Mike D'Angelo, AV Club
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