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The Source

23 Jan 1999
  • United States of America
88 mins
5.192
13 votes
  • Documentary
  • History
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Traces the Beats from Allen Ginsberg and Jack Kerouac's meeting in 1944 at Columbia University to the deaths of Ginsberg and William S. Burroughs in 1997. Three actors provide dramatic interpretations of the work of these three writers, and the film chronicles their friendships, their arrival into American consciousness, their travels, frequent parodies, Kerouac's death, and Ginsberg's politicization. Their movement connects with bebop, John Cage's music, abstract expressionism, and living theater. In recent interviews, Ginsberg, Burroughs, Kesey, Ferlinghetti, Mailer, Jerry Garcia, Tom Hayden, Gary Snyder, Ed Sanders, and others measure the Beats' meaning and impact.
  • Johnny Depp

    as Jack Kerouac
  • Dennis Hopper

    as William S. Burroughs
  • John Turturro

    as Allen Ginsberg
  • Allen Ginsberg

    as Self (archive footage)
  • William S. Burroughs

    as Self (archive footage)
  • Philip Glass

    as Self
  • Robert Creeley

    as Self
  • Ann Charters

    as Self
  • George Steade

    as Self
  • David Amram

    as Self
  • Ed Sanders

    as Self
  • Gregory Corso

    as Self

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