Rotten
There's a strange heft to its hollowness.
Robert Abele, Los Angeles Times
Overview
Big Sur is a film adaptation of the Jack Kerouac autobiographical novel of the same name.
Director and cast
- Michael Polish Director
- Kate Bosworth as Billie
- Josh Lucas as Neal Cassady
- Radha Mitchell as Carolyn Cassady
- Stana Katic as Lenora
- Henry Thomas as Philip Whalen
- Anthony Edwards as Lawrence Ferlinghetti
- Balthazar Getty as Michael McClure
- Nora Kirkpatrick as Alyson
- Patrick Fischler as Lew Welch / Dave Wain
- Jean-Marc Barr as Jack Kerouac
Critics on Rotten Tomatoes
Top critics, in their words
41%
Tomatometer
Fresh
"Big Sur" cracks the code of how to adapt Jack Kerouac for the screen.
Stephen Holden, New York Times
Fresh
Sometimes feels like a beautiful illustration, rather than an adaptation, of Kerouac's prose.
John DeFore, Washington Post
Rotten
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.
Elizabeth Weitzman, New York Daily News
Rotten
Nobody's given the opportunity to do much more than brood prettily and occasionally shout carpe diembromides into the pounding surf.
Mike D'Angelo, AV Club
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