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  • The Source (1999)
  • 88 min | Documentary, Biography, History
The Source (1999)
88 min | Documentary, Biography, History

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.
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Jan 23, 1999 (United States)

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63 cast members
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Johnny Depp
Jack Kerouac Jack Kerouac   See fewer
Dennis Hopper
William S. Burroughs William S. Burroughs   See fewer
John Turturro
Allen Ginsberg Allen Ginsberg   See fewer
Kyle Roderick
Self - Corso Biographer Self - Corso Biographer   See fewer
Ken Kesey
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Stephen Ronan
Self - Beat Historian (as Stephen Ronin) Self - Beat Historian (as Stephen Ronin)   See fewer
Steve Allen
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Paul Bowles
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Lenny Bruce
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William F. Buckley
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Mortimer Burroughs
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John Cage
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Neal Cassady
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Shirley Clarke
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Walter Cronkite
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Richard J. Daley
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Bob Dylan
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Dizzy Gillespie
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Brion Gysin
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Abbie Hoffman
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Billie Holiday
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J. Edgar Hoover
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Bob Hope
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Lyndon B. Johnson
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Robert F. Kennedy
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Jack Kerouac
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Jan Kerouac
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Martin Luther King
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John Leguizamo
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Norman Mailer
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Steve Martin
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Groucho Marx
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Robert Motherwell
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Deborah Norville
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Peter Orlovsky
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Stuart Perkoff
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Marlon Riggs
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Henry Rollins
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