On the Road
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Shaken by the death of his father and discouraged by his stalled career, writer Sal Paradise goes on a road trip hoping for inspiration. While traveling, he is befriended by charismatic and fearless Dean Moriarty and Moriarty's free-spirited and seductive young wife, Marylou. Traveling across the American southwest together, they strive to break from conformity and and search the unknown, and their decisions change the very course of their lives.... (Full plot summary below)

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Shaken by the death of his father and discouraged by his stalled career, writer Sal Paradise goes on a road trip hoping for inspiration. While traveling, he is befriended by charismatic and fearless Dean Moriarty and Moriarty's free-spirited and seductive young wife, Marylou. Traveling across the American southwest together, they strive to break from conformity and and search the unknown, and their decisions change the very course of their lives.

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HitFix - 9/10 by Drew McWeenySalles certainly can't be faulted for how he approached it. His "On The Road" has a real heartbeat, and it's a trip worth making.
St. Louis Post-Dispatch - 9/10 by Joe WilliamsNotwithstanding the characters’ spiritual camaraderie, Salles’ emphasizes the hard physical labor and loneliness in Sal’s story, including the jittery rigors of the writing process. When he reaches a crossroads choice between down-and-out Dean and his own rising career, Sal senses that except for the words on a typewritten scroll, his life on the road is gone, real gone.
Reeling Reviews - 9/10 by Robin CliffordThis 2+ hour adaptation (by Jose Rivera) spends most of its time on two things: sex, with various participants, and a lot of driving to and from various parts of the American landscape.
PopMatters - 9/10 by Chris Barsanti...a movie that's raging and serene, always looking over the horizon while grooving on the beauty of the here and now.
CraveOnline - 9/10 by Fred TopelRealizing that On the Road is not really a movie for me, I think it is a good movie. It's well done, fast paced at over two hours and never dragging.
Chicago Tribune - 8/10 by Michael PhillipsCall it a successful failure. Some movies worth seeing are like that.
Los Angeles Times - 8/10 by Kenneth TuranSalles has lovingly crafted a poetic, sensitive, achingly romantic version of the Kerouac book that captures the evanescence of its characters' existence and the purity of their rebellious hunger for the essence of life.
Spirituality and Practice - 8/10 by Frederic and Mary Ann BrussatA snapshot of the nonconformist Beatniks of the 1950s who yearned for the freedom and pleasures of the open road.
Daily Telegraph (UK) - 8/10 by Tim RobeyHedlund is a gritty revelation, desperate and magnetic. Dean's constant need for sex is understood as a sign of damage, part of the same compulsion that sends him all over America, bouncing between wives.
Cinema Autopsy - 8/10 by Thomas CaldwellWhile On the Road is a series of impressionistic moments, it would be a mistake to dismiss it as aimless.

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