Now Playing Synopsis: Jack Kerouac's seminal pseudo-autobiography finally heads to the big screen thanks to director Walter Salles Jr. (The Motorcycle Diaries) and producer Francis Ford Coppola. The tale is semi-based on the author's trips across America, with fiction intertwining with reportedly real events and people met along the way. The starring cast includes Kristen Stewart, Sam Riley, and Kirsten Dunst. José Rivera provides the adaptation. ~ Jeremy Wheeler, Rovi Cast: Garrett Hedlund, Sam Riley, Kristen Stewart, Kirsten Dunst, Viggo Mortensen Movie Details Play Trailer 
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...released the very American summer fun flick Jurassic Park the same year.YOUTH WITHOUT YOUTH (2007): It took Francis Ford Coppola, a filmmaker with famously European tastes and interests, a very long time to finally make the European movie...
...do things that the average person would not be allowed to do." Things like have lunch on the rolling lawns of Francis Ford Coppola's wine country estate. Mr. Hook and a few others got to do just that during this year's auction, held the...
...drivers (Mario Andretti founded Andretti Winery in 1996). The arts also have fielded a number of vintners; Francis Ford Coppola has been directing wine for a quarter of a century -- he bought his Napa Valley property in 1975 -- winning critical...
...paths lead them apart and back together. Based on the critically acclaimed novel. YOUTH WITHOUT YOUTH: Director Francis Ford Coppola hadn't directed a film in nearly 10 years before surfacing with this allegory about a man (Tim Roth) who ages...
...passed on several times before it went into production. THE CONVERSATION (1974): In the early 1970s, director Francis Ford Coppola formed American Zoetrope, a collective of Bay Area-based filmmakers brought together under the auspices of producing...
...double-dog dare you not to fall in love with them each and every time. THE CONVERSATION (1974): Director Francis Ford Coppola made his way onto the AFI list several times, but this claustrophobic thriller is his best work. Gene Hackman...
...forces, all with a startling sense of character and humanity. APOCALYPSE NOW (1979): Although it is true that Francis Ford Coppola's Vietnam version of Joseph Conrad's Heart of Darkness isn't the most historically accurate depiction of...
...she read in Ebony and Essence magazines. While a student at Clark Atlanta University, she interviewed director Francis Ford Coppola after the death of his son. The book includes juicy, sometimes humorous and touching, details from her interviews...
...the Stone and Back to the Future. ONE FROM THE HEART (1982): Although often maligned as a serious misstep, Francis Ford Coppola's lavish musical provided production designer Dean Tavoularis with a unique challenge. Mr. Coppola wanted to...
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