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SYNOPSIS. Postwar America was a time of status quo, a conventional era at which three unconventional people thumbed their noses, lives foreshadowing the social and sexual upheavals of the 1960s: Jack Kerouac, Carolyn Cassady and Neal Cassady, the free spirit who became the heroic model for Kerouac’s landmark novel On the Road.
Beatnik drifter Neal Cassady (Nick Nolte) shares his wife, Carolyn (Sissy Spacek), with "On the Road" writer Jack Kerouac (John Heard).
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- John Byrum
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- Nick Nolte
In bringing to heartfelt big-screen life this poignant three-way love affair, each star gives an impressively revealing performance. All roads in mainstream America once led to tract homes just like those in Heart Beat. But Jack, Carolyn and Neal threw that road map away.
- John Byrum
- Nick Nolte, Sissy Spacek, John Heard
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- Tate Donovan
- Jean Doumanian Productions
Neal Cassady. Writer: The Last Time I Committed Suicide. Neal Cassady became the well-spring from which the Beat Generation gushed forth due to his close friendships with Jack Kerouac and Allen Ginsberg Born on February 8, 1926 (in the back of a car, according to his own fanciful musings).
- Writer, Soundtrack
- February 8, 1926
- Neal Cassady
- February 4, 1968
Jun 20, 1997 · Neal Cassady seeks a happy life with a wife and a white picket fence, but when his girlfriend attempts to take her own life, he must reevaluate his future. Watch on Prime Video Stream Now
- Drama, Romance
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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.
