On the Road
The movie follows the adventure of young writer Sal Paradise, free-spirited Dean Moriarty and his girl, Marylou as they head off in search of the world, of other encounters, and of themselves.
December 8, 1978 in Baltimore, Maryland, USA
30 April 1982, Point Pleasant, New Jersey, USA
11 December 1976, Mexico City, Distrito Federal, Mexico
11 March 1969, Chicago, Illinois, USA
14 January 1931, Toronto, Ontario, Canada
29 October 1948, Montreal, Québec, Canada
15 May 1980, Muskegon, Michigan, USA
3 September 1984, Roseau, Minnesota, USA
3 October 1982, Mexico City, Distrito Federal, Mexico
15 April 1983, São Paulo, São Paulo, Brazil
20 October 1958, Manhattan, New York City, New York, USA
17 May 1978, Mexico, Distrito Federal, Mexico
November 01, 2013
Despite the obvious enthusiasm of the screenwriter, the director, and the actors for Kerouac's novel, they get it wrong. Probably nobody can get it right, since the power is in the words, not the story.
March 22, 2013
Walter Salles's warm but strangely staid adaptation of a piece of literature that was never meant to be tamed as cinema.
March 21, 2013
In Salles, screenwriter Jose Rivera and company's effort to get the details right, they only get so far. And it's not quite far enough.
August 06, 2013
Salles can't recreate the feeling of finding oneself in Kerouac's prose
March 08, 2017
While the film revolves around painfully handsome Dean's chaotic existentialism, the women of On the Road, while often discarded by their men, provide essential narrative stability and insight.
March 22, 2013
It's not a wreck of a movie; it's not a sleek race car either. But there's heat to be felt here.
March 21, 2013
"On the Road" is something of a sprawling mess, but then so is the novel.
June 27, 2014
Although the film is sensationally photographed and artfully directed and scored, it's ultimately strictly dullsville, man.
May 02, 2013
A booze-soaked, drug-riddled, sex-filled escapade with no real point about young people casting off whatever yokes chain them and seeing what's out there. It captures the pure exhilaration of freedom for its own sake.
March 21, 2013
Against all odds, a surprisingly effective movie.
June 26, 2013
It's hard to imagine how such an exciting book became such a boring movie.
March 21, 2013
It took more than half a century, but Jack Kerouac's autobiographical cult novel of bohemian youth in postwar America has reached the screen in wonderful form.

