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Heart Beat: Directed by John Byrum. With Nick Nolte, Sissy Spacek, John Heard, Ray Sharkey. The life and friendship among the icons of the Beat Generation: Neal Cassady, Carolyn Cassady, and Jack Kerouac.
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- Drama
- John Byrum
- 1980-09-24
A fictional re-telling - mostly from Carolyn Cassidy's point of view - of the goings-ons between her, Neal Cassady (her husband), and Jack Kerouac, in the 1950s. She wrote her memoirs once as Heart Beat, then revised them at greater length as Off the Road.
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- John Byrum
After being an icon of the Beat Geneartion, a decade later, Neal became an icon of the psychedelic scene in California in the 1960s (an era that ended with the Tate-LaBianca murders by the Charles Manson family in 1969), becoming close to such counter-cultural idols as The Grateful Dead.
- Writer, Soundtrack
- February 8, 1926
- Neal Cassady
- February 4, 1968
Kerouac’s novel starred a heroic proto-beat named Dean Moriarty, based on the legendary underground figure Neal Cassady. And now in “Heart Beat” we get the story of Neal and Jack and Neal’s wife.
Heart Beat. R Released Apr 25, 1980 1h 50m Biography List. 20% Tomatometer 5 Reviews 40% Popcornmeter Fewer than 50 Ratings. Beatnik drifter Neal Cassady (Nick Nolte) shares his wife, Carolyn...
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- John Byrum
- R
- Nick Nolte
The film explores the love triangle of real-life characters Neal Cassady, Jack Kerouac, and Carolyn Cassady in the late 1950s and the 1960s. It chronicles Kerouac writing his seminal novel On the Road, and its effect on their lives.
The film features extensive interviews with friends and fellow writers, including the widow of Neal Cassady, who feels that her husband's attempts to live up to the legend of Dean Moriarty,...
- Documentary
