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Beat
- Director: Gary Walkow
- Writer: Gary Walkow
- Producer: Willi Bär; Michael Beugg
CGiii Comment
Not a patch on Cronenberg's Naked Lunch...
The cinematography is excellent, the actors miscast.
There is no passion and, therefore, no empathy (or even sympathy) for these real people - here, they all come over as self-indulgent, drug addicted, philandering phonies...which they possibly were!
If that was the intention - then, well done.
Walkow has assembled a fine cast with a weak script and very little understanding of the philosophy he was trying to convey.
At just 70 minutes, it is a failure on all levels. Shallow.
No trailer...
The(ir) Blurb...
The story of writer William Seward Burroughs and his wife.
Cast & Characters
Courtney Love as Joan Vollmer Burroughs;
Kiefer Sutherland as William S. Burroughs;
Lisa Sheridan as Sadie;
Patricia Llaca as Mary;
Steve Hedden as Pharmacist;
Ron Livingston as Allen Ginsberg;
Norman Reedus as Lucien Carr;
Daniel Martinez as Jack Kerouac;
Kyle Secor as Dave Kammerer;
Pedro Gonzalez as Knife Sharpener;
Georgiana Sirbu as Julie;
Rene Rubio as Bill Jr.;
Sam Trammell as Lee;
Alec Von Bargen as Heard;
Tommy Perna as Dwight