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Big Sur
Directed by
Michael Polish
R
2013
1h 40m
Drama
,
Romance
5.7
44%
37%
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A recounting of Jack Kerouac's three sojourns to the cabin in Big Sur owned by his friend, poet Lawrence Ferlinghetti.
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Cast of Big Sur
Jean-Marc Barr
Jack Kerouac
Josh Lucas
Neal Cassady
Kate Bosworth
Billie
Anthony Edwards
Lawrence Ferlinghetti
Henry Thomas
Philip Whalen
Patrick Fischler
Lew Welch / Dave Wain
Radha Mitchell
Carolyn Cassady
Stana Katic
Lenora
Balthazar Getty
Michael McClure
Nora Kirkpatrick
Alyson
Big Sur Ratings & Reviews
Observer
Rex Reed
Don't worry if you don't connect. There's nothing to connect to. The characters are never developed, and nothing ever happens.
New York Daily News
Elizabeth Weitzman
With Kerouac declaring that "the only thing that matters is the conceptions in my own mind," we're still left waiting for the filmmaker who can take us there.
RogerEbert.com
Sheila O'Malley
A strangely tepid experience for such searing psychological material.
Washington Post
John DeFore
Sometimes feels like a beautiful illustration, rather than an adaptation, of Kerouac's prose.
AV Club
Mike D'Angelo
Nobody's given the opportunity to do much more than brood prettily and occasionally shout carpe diembromides into the pounding surf.
Punch Drunk Critics
Roxana Hadadi
Ultimately, Big Sur demonstrates the limitations of Kerouac's text, how personal it is to each reader and how unsatisfactory it feels on the big screen.
Shockya.com
Brent Simon
Clearly edited to evoke a feeling of slipstream, stream-of-consciousness connection, but little more than a rolling delivery service of smugness, self-destruction, hedonism and pretentiousness.
The Film Stage
Jared Mobarak
An ingenious way to bring the story to life, such an experimental visual form's potential to captivate might leave something to be desired.
Arkansas Democrat-Gazette
Philip Martin
...works as a kind of tone poem, drenching the senses in beautifully sad imagery, as Kerouac's poetry and prose sound over images of the sparkling Pacific.
Slant Magazine
David Lee Dallas
The viewer is informed of a world of chaos, obsession, and irresolution, but has no cinematic means of accessing or understanding it.
Los Angeles Times
Robert Abele
There's a strange heft to its hollowness.
New York Times
Stephen Holden
"Big Sur" cracks the code of how to adapt Jack Kerouac for the screen.
Village Voice
Michael Atkinson
You don't have to be a Beat cultist to wonder why these brilliant and transgressive volcanoes of authentic cool are so friggin' boring.
Variety
Guy Lodge
Offers an elegantly muted take on the midlife ennui of Kerouac's autobiographical 1962 novel.
The Hollywood Reporter
Justin Lowe
An intuitive approach to this literary classic yields dividends for both style and performance.
The Playlist
Kevin Jagernauth
Big Sur rises and fades, shifts and moves, through movements and melodies, singing a beautifully sad song for an era and a man who lost his way.
Madison Movie
Rob Thomas
It feels like we get closer to the real Kerouac here, the man behind the book, unable to escape its shadow.
Counterpunch.org
Louis Proyect
Competent adaptation of Jack Kerouac's swan song. Those expecting a groovy good time should look elsewhere since this is a movie about a nervous breakdown.
The Dissolve
Nathan Rabin
Polish's agonizingly dull adaptation of Jack Kerouac's Big Sur unwittingly illustrates why movies continue to be the Beats' Kryptonite.
Oregonian
Jeff Baker
Some of the performances -- Mitchell, Fischler and especially Lucas -- are lively, but Barr never gets under Kerouac's skin to show the pain of an artist who can't hold his life together.
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