A murder in 1944 draws together the great poets of the beat generation: Allen Ginsberg, Jack Kerouac and William Burroughs.
Acting
Dane DeHaan's Lucien Carr is magnetic, maddening, unforgettable.
Direction
Krokidas captures Beat energy without romanticizing the damage.
Cinematography
1940s Columbia looks like a fever dream of literary longing.
Director
John Krokidas
Daniel Radcliffe
Allen Ginsberg
Dane DeHaan
Lucien Carr
Michael C. Hall
David Kammerer
Jack Huston
Jack Kerouac
Ben Foster
William Burroughs
David Cross
Louis Ginsberg
Jennifer Jason Leigh
Naomi Ginsberg
Elizabeth Olsen
Edie Parker
John Cullum
Professor Steeves
Brenda Wehle
Permissions Librarian
Erin Darke
Gwendolyn
Craig Chester
Businessman
Lenore Harris
DA Secretary
Zach Appelman
Luke Detweiler
Trivia, insights & behind the scenes
The real Lucien Carr served 18 months and later became a news editor at United Press International, never speaking to Ginsberg again.
This murder literally created the Beat Generation—Kerouac and Burroughs co-wrote a novel about it that was suppressed until Carr's death in 2005.
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