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ORIGINAL TITLE

On the Road

YEAR

2012	Apple Trailer

RUNNING TIME

136 min.

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COUNTRY

(New) Visual section

DIRECTOR

Walter Salles

SCREENWRITER

José Rivera (Novel: Jack Kerouac)

COMPOSER

Gustavo Santaolalla

CINEMATOGRAPHER

Eric Gautier

CAST

Garrett Hedlund, Sam Riley, Kristen Stewart, Amy Adams, Tom Sturridge, Danny Morgan, Viggo Mortensen, Alice Braga, Elisabeth Moss, Kirsten Dunst, Terrence Howard, Steve Buscemi

STUDIO/PRODUCER

Co-production UK-France-USA-Brazil; MK2 Productions / American Zoetrope / Jerry Leider Company / Vanguard Films / Film4

OFFICIAL WEB

http://themadones.us/

AWARDS

2012: Cannes Film Festival: Official Selection

GENRE

Drama | Road Movie

SYNOPSIS/PLOT

Dean and Sal are the portrait of the Beat Generation living in the here and now during the Fifties. Their search for "It" results in a fast paced, energetic roller coaster ride with highs and lows throughout the U.S... Legendary 1957 'beat' novel 'On The Road', by Jack Kerouac, will be adapted by Brazilian filmmaker Walter Salles (The Motorcycle Diaries). Francis Ford Coppola bought the rights the book in the 1960s.

PRO REVIEWS

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"Handsome shots and touching sadness don't compensate for the tedious air of self-congratulation in Walter Salles's road movie (...) Rating: ** (out of five)" (Peter Bradshaw: The Guardian)

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"A beautiful and respectful adaptation of Jack Kerouac’s landmark novel that intermittently leaves the ground to take flight" (Todd McCarthy: The Hollywood Reporter)

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"Salles has lovingly crafted a poetic, sensitive, achingly romantic version of the Kerouac book that captures the evanescence of its characters' existence and the purity of their rebellious hunger for the essence of life" (Kenneth Turan: Los Angeles Times)

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"Call it a successful failure. Some movies worth seeing are like that (...) Rating: *** (out of four)" (Michael Phillips: Chicago Tribune)

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"Evocatively lensed, skillfully made (...) Walter Salles' picture pulses with youthful energy but feels overly calculated (...), attesting to the difficulty and perhaps futility of trying to reproduce Kerouac's literary lightning onscreen" (Justin Chang: Variety)

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"Although Jack Kerouac's 'On the Road' has been praised as a milestone in American literature, this film version brings into question how much of a story it really offers (...) Rating: ** (out of four)" (Roger Ebert: Chicago Sun-Times)

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"A dash of Tarantino might have juiced up Walter Salles' wrongheadedly well-mannered take on Jack Kerouac's (...) landmark. Kerouac's semi-autobiographical novel comes to the screen looking good but feeling shallow (...) Rating: ** (out of four)" (Peter Travers: Rolling Stone)

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