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Aspect Ratio: 1.33:1
Audience Rating: R (Restricted)
Binding: DVD
EAN: 5014138294854
Format: PAL
Number Of Discs: 1
Region Code: 2
Running Time: 92 minutes
Sales Rank: 197964
Theatrical Release Date: June 20, 1997
Editorial Review:
Amazon.com:
Thomas Jane stars as Beat writer and Jack Kerouac-crony Neal Cassady, in a promising film that quickly flops. Based on a letter Cassady wrote to Kerouac, the highly stylized film by Stephen Kay pretty much follows the former around as he does not much of anything at all. Keanu Reeves is incomprehensible as a friend of Cassady, and Kay's jazzy, angular, colliding style does nothing to illuminate the Beat icon's all-important internal life. If you're new to the whole Kerouac-Cassady-Beat world, this is not a good first stop; slightly better is John Byrum's 1980 Heart Beat, which at least introduces some of the principal figures. --Tom Keogh
Customer Reviews
Average Rating: 
Rating:  - Incomprehensible
Ok, Jack Kerouac's writings may not be the easiest to follow, but this film is worse. What IS going on here? Beats me. The film-maker was more interested in stylization than story-telling. I gave up after about 30 mins, which is 25 more than a movie deserves if it gets off to a thud like this one.
Rating:  - All the making out made me lose interest...
Pros
-The old school feel of the jazzy songs are a big plus; very smooth and melancholy. I think it captured the big picture of the environment they were in, in spades and spades...
-90% of the people on-screen are quite attractive
-The story has you interested in the beginning...
Cons
-...But then it falls off dramatically
-Keanu wasn't in the movie enough; you see him play pool once, and make out once...
-The main character NEVER gets ... Read More
Rating: - This isn't the last time he'll commit suicide
Hugely underrated film, most probably because of its art school-like visuals, "Suicide" is based upon an actual letter beat hero Neal Cassady wrote to Jack Kerouac about he and a girl almost but did not quite get the American Dream. Thomas Jane (who played Mickey Mantle in "61*") is equisite as Cassady, bringing a frenetic energy to the screen much in the way a Kerouac or Ginsburg reader would picture him and his smooth talking, car stealing self. Keanu Reeves surprises as Harry, the devil on Cassady's ... Read More
Rating: - This movie is perfect for the restless.
I know very little about the Beat culture and have never read anything by Kerouac, but I still enjoyed this movie. And as other reviewers have said before, the movie doesn't really have a "point" and it's not trying to change your views on the world. What it is doing is telling a story about a young man who is fighting with himself. Neal Cassidy, at the point in his life this movie captures, is torn between a self that wants to settle down with a wife and kid and live in a house with a picket fence, and ... Read More
Rating:  - one that slipped through the cracks
It seems that this movie can only be appreciated by fans of beat literature. If you happen to be one, or are curious about the beats, this is a fantastic movie. The movie is a dramatization of a letter that Neal Cassidy, the muse of the beat generation, wrote his famous pal, Jack Kerouac. The film brings to life all the snappy, fireball energy that was Neal Cassidy while also demonstrating the subtle poetic irony that of the beat generation. If you don't know anything about the beats, or don't care to, then ... Read More
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