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The Source

The Source (1999)★ 7.2/10

US · 88 min · January 23, 1999

  • Documentary
  • History
  • Biography

Directed by: Chuck Workman

Written by: Chuck Workman

Traces the Beats from Allen Ginsberg and Jack Kerouac's meeting in 1944 at Columbia University to the deaths of Ginsberg and William S. Burroughs.

Directed by

Chuck Workman

Written by

Chuck Workman

Cast & crew

Johnny DeppJack KerouacJohn TurturroAllen GinsbergDennis HopperWilliam S. BurroughsAllen GinsbergSelf (archiveFootage)Philip GlassSelfRobert CreeleySelfAnn ChartersSelfGeorge SteadeSelfDavid AmramSelfWilliam S. BurroughsSelf (archiveFootage)Ed SandersSelfGregory CorsoSelfKyle RoderickSelf - Corso biographerLawrence FerlinghettiSelfKen KeseySelf (archiveFootage)Gary SnyderSelfJerry GarciaSelf (archiveFootage)Jack MichelineSelfMichael McClureSelfStephen RonanSelf - Beat HistorianPhilip WhalenSelfTerry SouthernSelf (archiveFootage)Timothy LearySelf (archiveFootage)Paul KrassnerSelfDiane Di PrimaSelfTom HaydenSelfDavid DellingerSelfJohn SampasSelfSteve AllenSelf (archiveFootage)Amiri BarakaSelfPaul BowlesSelf (archiveFootage)Lenny BruceSelf (archiveFootage)William F. BuckleySelf (archiveFootage)Mortimer BurroughsSelf (archiveFootage)John CageSelf (archiveFootage)Neal CassadySelf (archiveFootage)Shirley ClarkeSelf (archiveFootage)Walter CronkiteSelf (archiveFootage)Richard J. DaleySelf (archiveFootage)Bob DylanSelf (archiveFootage)Dizzy GillespieSelf (archiveFootage)Brion GysinSelf (archiveFootage)Abbie HoffmanSelf (archiveFootage)Billie HolidaySelf (archiveFootage)J. Edgar HooverSelf (archiveFootage)Bob HopeSelf (archiveFootage)Lyndon B. JohnsonSelf (archiveFootage)Robert F. KennedySelf (archiveFootage)Jack KerouacSelf (archiveFootage)Jan KerouacSelf (archiveFootage)Martin Luther KingSelf (archiveFootage)John LeguizamoSelf (archiveFootage)Norman MailerSelf (archiveFootage)Steve MartinSelf (archiveFootage)Groucho MarxSelf (archiveFootage)Gilbert MillsteinSelfRobert MotherwellSelf (archiveFootage)Deborah NorvilleSelf (archiveFootage)Peter OrlovskySelf (archiveFootage)Stuart PerkoffSelf (archiveFootage)Thomas R. Peters Jr.SelfMarlon RiggsSelf (archiveFootage)Henry RollinsSelf (archiveFootage)