Title: Weak Tea.
Product review: Yeah, this one is neither fish nor fowl. It includes some good footage and interviews with members of the beat generation, but its attempt to dramatize Kerouac's life are unfulfilling. The acting is sixth rate, and the actors themselves don't look much at all like Jack or Neal Cassady. I think it was a great idea to have an actor read passages from Kerouac's work, but even this manages to grate as the sentences are read melodramatically and contaminated by too much emotion. Kerouac didn't sound like that, nor, from what I have read, did he think like that. This documentary was quite a disappointment and two other films are available on the tragic man which are far superior in quality.
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