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This is the story of Neal Cassady, as told to me by his daughter, Jami.
- 33 min
- 300.1K
- David Hoffman
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.
- (747)
- Drama
- John Byrum
- 1980-09-24
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.
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
- R
- Nick Nolte
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.
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.
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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).
