On the Road

Why we chose it

Walter Salles (“The Motorcycle Diaries”) adapts Jack Kerouac’s cult novel through the Beat Generation’s poetry, drugs and jazz, with Sam Riley, Garrett Hedlund, Kristen Stewart and Amy Adams as the young people on the road. The road never ends, and the thrill is not knowing what tomorrow brings.

Synopsis

In the late 1940s, Sal is a young writer who has yet to write anything. Then Dean Moriarty turns up from Denver, an ex-con with a teenage wife, a car and not a cent to his name. Together they set off for the far side of America, fuelled by jazz and drugs, and Sal writes every bit of it down.

Information

Cast
Production year
2012
Decade
2010s
Duration
2h 4m
Festivals & Awards
Language
English, French, Spanish
Country
France, United States, United Kingdom, Mexico, Canada, Brazil, Argentina
Subtitles
Greek, Polish
Age rating
12+

Cannes Film Festival

Official Selection - International Competition

2012

What others say

3.6
81 reviews

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