Big Sur

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Big Sur

R,

2013,

1h 40m,

Drama

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44%

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1,000+ Ratings

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Jack Duluoz takes three trips to poet Lawrence Ferlinghetti's cabin in Big Sur.

Roxana Hadadi

Punch Drunk Critics

Jan 9, 2017

1.5/5

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.

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Sheila O'Malley

RogerEbert.com

Nov 1, 2013

2/4

A strangely tepid experience for such searing psychological material.

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Robert Abele

Los Angeles Times

Oct 31, 2013

There's a strange heft to its hollowness.

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B. Ruby Rich

Film Quarterly

Feb 28, 2020

Sparked an awareness of drama and documentary's interconnectedness and the impossibility of truly separating their elements in a digital age.

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Nicholas Bell

IONCINEMA.com

Aug 29, 2019

Big Sur is a picturesque film to behold, but if you close your eyes, it sounds like an audio book.

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Josh Terry

Deseret News (Salt Lake City)

Nov 29, 2017

The film is driven by narration taken from passages of Kerouac's own prose, which celebrate the enthusiasm and passion he holds for life while his addictions eat away at his body and mind.

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Mar 16, 2018

I've watched this several times and found it exceptional and almost never watch movies. I'm a huge Kerouac fan and have read him for years and years . he's had a most profound affect on my life. I live through him and neal doing things I never would. the casting is outstanding and the movie is a work of art but of course most people have absolutely no sense of that. they are blind. art is not subjective. people's tastes are. this movie is based on Kerouac's last great book. he had a nervous breakdown and at the same time the book is laced with humor. the movie is very well made. the makers did an outstanding job, as good as can be done when making a book into a movie.

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Albus M

Feb 27, 2017

Feels like a really long commercial for a movie. Or a really long short film. While I admire the filmmaking craft on display here, movies are not books, and this felt more like a book than a movie. The monotone voiceover feels inspired by Terrence Malick, but it doesn't have the same poetic emotion. It just becomes verbal diarrhea at times, increasingly so by the 1 hour mark. Gorgeous cinematography, but the whole thing feels a bit surreal.

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Michael Polish

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Synopsis

Jack Duluoz takes three trips to poet Lawrence Ferlinghetti's cabin in Big Sur.

Director: Michael Polish
Producer: Ross Jacobson, Adam Kassen, Michael Polish, Orian Williams, Sean King O'Grady
Screenwriter: Michael Polish
Distributor: Ketchup Entertainment
Production Co: 3311 Productions, Troy Entertainment
Rating: R (Some Sexuality|Nudity|Language)
Genre: Drama
Original Language: English
Release Date (Theaters): Nov 1, 2013, Limited
Release Date (Streaming): Jan 25, 2017
Box Office (Gross USA): $33.6K
Runtime: 1h 40m

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