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Sep 24, 1980 · Heart Beat is a 1980 drama film directed by John Byrum and starring Nick Nolte as Neal Cassady, Sissy Spacek as Carolyn Cassady, and John Heard as Jack Kerouac. The film depicts the life and friendship of the icons of the Beat Generation, but has been criticized for its historical inaccuracies and distortions.
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- Drama
- John Byrum
- 1980-09-24
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
The film is based on Robert Stone 's novel Dog Soldiers (1974), and stars Nick Nolte as Ray Hicks. Stone based the character of Hicks on Beat writer Neal Cassady. Stone became acquainted with Cassady through novelist Ken Kesey, a classmate of Stone in graduate school at Stanford University.
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- Tate Donovan
- Jean Doumanian Productions
Poet and cultural icon Allen Ginsberg (James Franco) is living in San Francisco in the mid '50s with friends and fellow writers Jack Kerouac (Todd Rotondi) and Neal Cassady (Jon Prescott) when...
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- Drama, Biography
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Neal Cassady. Neal Cassady was made infamous by Jack Kerouac's On the Road, but fame only made the sex, drugs & driving go a little bit faster. Here is the man behind the icon. 13IMDb 6.01 h 20 min2007. 18+.
