

"The best teacher is experience."
Sal Paradise is a young writer whose life is shaken and ultimately redefined by the arrival of Dean Moriarty, a free-spirited, fearless, fast talking Westerner and his girl, Marylou. Traveling cross-country, Sal and Dean venture out on a personal quest for freedom from the conformity and conservatism engulfing them in search of the unknown, themselves, and the pursuit of “it” -- the pure essence of experience.
Walter Salles
Nathanaël Karmitz
$25,000,000
$8,784,318

Dean Moriarty / Neal Cassady

Sal Paradise / Jack Kerouac

Marylou / LuAnne Henderson

Jane / Joan Vollmer

Carlo Marx / Allen Ginsberg

Camille / Carolyn Cassady

Old Bull Lee / William S. Burroughs

Ed Dunkle / Al Hinkle

Terry / Bea Franco

Galatea Dunkel / Helen Hinkle

Walter

Vicki