Title from disc surface. Originally released as a motion picture in 1999. Wide screen (1.78:1, 16x9). Featuring Allen Ginsberg, Philip Glass, Robert Creeley, Ann Charters, George Steade ; dramatic readings by Johnny Depp, Dennis Hopper, John Turturro.
Summary:
Traces the rise of the Beat counter-cultural movement in the early 1940s, focusing on the work of three of the movement's most famous writers, Jack Kerouac, Allen Ginsberg, and William S. Burroughs.
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