Heart Beat

Based on a book by Carolyn Cassady, the former wife of Beat icon Neal Cassady, Heart Beat explores the couple’s relationship with On the Road author Jack Kerouac, and stars John Heard as Kerouac, Nick Nolte as Neal and Sissy Spacek as Carolyn., In 1957 Jack Kerouac published On The Road, a book that defined a generation–and forever changed the United States. Academy Award Winner Sissy Spacek stars with Nick Nolte and John Heard as Carolyn and Neal Cassidy and Kerouac, the three friends whose road trip across North America in a manic, obsessive burst of sexual liberation, alcohol, love and hate formed the subject of On The Road. Based on the memoirs of Carolyn Cassidy., The Beat Generation is recalled in this story of writers Neal Cassady and Jack Kerouac, and the woman they shared. Nick Nolte, Sissy Spacek, John Heard. Ira: Ray Sharkey. Stevie: Ann Dusenberry. Dick: Tony Bill. Mrs. Kerouac: Margaret Fairchild. Written and directed by John Byrum.