On the Road
"The best teacher is experience."
"The best teacher is experience."
Adventure, Drama
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2012
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Sal Paradise is a young writer whose life is shaken and ultimately redefined by the arrival of Dean Moriarty, a free-spirited, fearless, fast talking Westerner and his girl, Marylou. Traveling cross-country, Sal and Dean venture out on a personal quest for freedom from the conformity and conservatism engulfing them in search of the unknown, themselves, and the pursuit of “it” -- the pure essence of experience.
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Runtime:
142 min
Release date:
22 May 2012
Country:
BR, FR, GB, US
Languages:
English, French
Budget:
$25,000,000
Revenue:
$8,784,318
Awards:
2 wins & 4 nominations
Top Critics Reviews
fresh:
It's not a wreck of a movie; it's not a sleek race car either. But there's heat to be felt here.
– Tom Long,
Detroit News,
22 Mar 2013
rotten:
Walter Salles's warm but strangely staid adaptation of a piece of literature that was never meant to be tamed as cinema.
– Ann Hornaday,
Washington Post,
22 Mar 2013
fresh:
"On the Road" is something of a sprawling mess, but then so is the novel.
– Mick LaSalle,
San Francisco Chronicle,
21 Mar 2013
fresh:
It took more than half a century, but Jack Kerouac's autobiographical cult novel of bohemian youth in postwar America has reached the screen in wonderful form.
– Colin Covert,
Minneapolis Star Tribune,
21 Mar 2013
fresh:
Against all odds, a surprisingly effective movie.
– Ty Burr,
Boston Globe,
21 Mar 2013