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Jack Kerouac: King of the Beats

6.6(13)19851h 11m1

Jack Kerouac's life is examined through interviews with his contemporaries and friends including Allen Ginsberg, Lawrence Ferlinghetti and William S. Burroughs. The film also employs dramatic recreations of Kerouac's life beginning with his early childhood.

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  • biography
  • author
  • beat generation

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    • TheatricalNR6 Sept 1985

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Jack Kerouac: King of the Beats was released on 6 September 1985.

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    pancine

    2/10/2019

    7/10

    Good documentary could have benefited from more interviews and and poetry readings, which are out there. "The Dharma Bums" barely gets mentioned. Still, an informative look at a groundbreaking figure and literary giant.

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    tmdb76622195

    9/27/2023

    8/10

    The King of the Beats gets a rather standard documentary treatment, complete with badly done reenactments, but it is hard to screw up such a strong subject. Filmed in the early 1980's, all the Beat writers and various hangers-on are trotted out to tell the story of the author of "On the Road," a novel that changed modern literature. Jack Kerouac was born in Lowell, Massachusetts in 1922 and went to Columbia Universi…

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