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      Heart Beat

      R Released Apr 25, 1980 1h 50m Biography List
      20% 5 Reviews Tomatometer 40% Fewer than 50 Ratings Audience Score Beatnik drifter Neal Cassady (Nick Nolte) shares his wife, Carolyn (Sissy Spacek), with "On the Road" writer Jack Kerouac (John Heard). Read More Read Less Watch on Fandango at Home Premiered Jun 22 Buy Now

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      Audience Member Takes liberties with accuracy and stretches out events beyond their actual chronology to create a love triangle between Kerouac and the Cassadys that was much more short lived in reality. Has a kind of melodrama sheen to it with dialogue that seems unlucky to have come from the mouth's of either Kerouac or Cassady. Rated 2 out of 5 stars 01/27/23 Full Review Read all reviews Post a rating

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      Bruce McCabe Boston Globe Heart Beat, which is supposedly about Jack Kerouac and his friends in the Beat Generation, is Bob and Carol and Ted and Alice without Alice and without humor. Apr 28, 2018 Full Review Roger Ebert Chicago Sun-Times The characters are wonderfully well played by Nick Nolte Sissy Spacek and John Heard -- they have scenes together in which the round-robin of everyday dialogue is almost poetic -- but nobody has given their characters anything to do except to be. Rated: 2.5/4 Oct 23, 2004 Full Review Jesús Fernández Santos El Pais (Spain) John Byrum has achieved an honest film, narrated with the sobriety of the testimony, just as its characters deserved. [Full Review in Spanish] Aug 15, 2019 Full Review Kathy Huffhines Sojourner The part gives Spacek little to do and her "acting" is a series of poses in 50's dresses and hairdos. Aug 15, 2019 Full Review Dennis Schwartz Dennis Schwartz Movie Reviews The analysis of the beats comes across as superficial. Rated: C+ Aug 20, 2014 Full Review Read all reviews

      Movie Info

      Synopsis Beatnik drifter Neal Cassady (Nick Nolte) shares his wife, Carolyn (Sissy Spacek), with "On the Road" writer Jack Kerouac (John Heard).
      Director
      John Byrum
      Producer
      William Tepper
      Screenwriter
      John Byrum
      Distributor
      Orion Pictures
      Production Co
      Orion Pictures
      Rating
      R
      Genre
      Biography
      Original Language
      English
      Release Date (Theaters)
      Apr 25, 1980, Original
      Release Date (Streaming)
      Jun 22, 2009
      Runtime
      1h 50m
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