Production Companies

MK2 Films, Film4 Productions, France 2 Cinéma, VideoFilmes, American Zoetrope, The Jerry Leider Company, Vanguard Films

Overview

""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.