THE SOURCE [IMPORT]

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• Release Year: 1999
• Genre: Documentary
• Plot: When Jack Kerouac, Allen Ginsberg and William Burroughs met at Columbia University in the 1940s, they spawned a movement, then called the Beats, that set precedents for the political, hippie and spiritual movements of the 1960s and '70s. This comprehensive portrait of the Beat Generation includes interviews with virtually every surviving figure from this period. Johnny Depp, Dennis Hopper and John Turturro perform dramatized readings of works by Kerouac, Burroughs and Ginsberg. The Source is the definitive film portrait of the Beat Generation and the countercultural movements that followed, by Academy Award® winner, director Chuck Workman
• Cast: Johnny Depp, Dennis Hopper, John Turturro, Allen Ginsberg, Philip Glass, Robert Creeley, Ann Charters, George Steade, David Amram, William S. Burroughs, Ed Sanders, Gregory Corso, Kyle Roderick, Lawrence Ferlinghetti, Ken Kesey, Gary Snyder, Jerry Garcia, Jack Micheline, Michael McClure, Stephen Ronin, Philip Whalen, Terry Southern, Timothy Leary, Paul Krassner, Diane Di Prima, Tom Hayden, David Dellinger, John Sampas, Steve Allen, Amiri Baraka, Paul Bowles, Lenny Bruce, William F. Buckley, Mortimer Burroughs, John Cage, Neal Cassady, Shirley Clarke, Walter Cronkite, Richard J. Daley, Bob Dylan, Dizzy Gillespie, Brion Gysin, Abbie Hoffman, J. Edgar Hoover, Bob Hope, Lyndon Johnson, Robert F. Kennedy, Jack Kerouac, Jan Kerouac, Martin Luther King, John Leguizamo, Norman Mailer, Steve Martin, Groucho Marx, Gilbert Millstein, Robert Motherwell, Deborah Norville, Peter Orlovsky, Stuart Perkoff, Marlon Riggs, Henry Rollins, Chuck Workman
• Director: Chuck Workman
• Runtime: 1:29
• Company: Calliope
• Media Format: Movie