Jack Kerouac: King of the Beats

The documentary takes up Jack Kerouac. Kerouac was an American writer. He is one of the known names of the Beat generation. The film goes back over his life. The account opens with his childhood years. Those parts are shown through reconstruction. Actors rebuild those days on screen. Then come the years of his writing. People who knew Kerouac speak. Allen Ginsberg is among them. Lawrence Ferlinghetti gives his account too. William S. Burroughs has his say as well. All three were inside the same circle. What they say touches both the friendship and the period. The account moves along through those testimonies. Peter Coyote narrates the seventy one minute documentary. John Antonelli directed it. The American production was finished in 1985.