A murder in 1944 draws together the great poets of the beat generation: Allen Ginsberg, Jack Kerouac, and William Burroughs.A murder in 1944 draws together the great poets of the beat generation: Allen Ginsberg, Jack Kerouac, and William Burroughs.A murder in 1944 draws together the great poets of the beat generation: Allen Ginsberg, Jack Kerouac, and William Burroughs.
- Awards
- 5 wins & 13 nominations
Storyline
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- TriviaIn 2008, while performing the Broadway play Equus, Daniel Radcliffe auditioned and got the part of Allen Ginsberg. Radcliffe went on to film the last two Harry Potter movies, Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows: Part 1 (2010) and Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows: Part 2 (2011), and with him unavailable for filming, Chris Evans, Jesse Eisenberg, and Ben Whishaw were cast without Radcliffe. Shortly after, financing for the film fell through. When director John Krokidas started again with the film, he offered the role of Allen Ginsberg back to Radcliffe.
- GoofsJack Kerouac, upon his arrest, contacts his father and we hear an American accent on the line. Kerouac's parents were French-speaking Quebecois and it took Jack until his late teens to fully master English, which he spoke with a slight Québec lilt; it is thus unlikely his father and he would have spoken in English, much less in a General American accent.
- Quotes
Allen Ginsberg: Some things, once you've loved them, become yours forever./And if you try to let them go... /They only circle back and return to you./They become part of who you are...
Lucien Carr: ...or they destroy you.
- Crazy creditsThe first part of the end credits run over the top of photographs of the real Allen Ginsberg, Jack Kerouac, Lucien Carr and William S. Burroughs.
- ConnectionsFeatured in Film '72: Episode dated 3 December 2013 (2013)
- SoundtracksLilli Marlene
Written by Norbert Schultze, Hans Leip, Tommie Connor
Performed by Anne Shelton, Stanley Black and his Orchestra
Published by Edward B Marks Music Company
Courtesy of Decca Music Group Limited under license from Universal Music Enterprises
Featured review
Titillating filmmaking
Interesting, though not a thoroughly satisfying film, about very interesting people in a equally interesting time in history. Ginsberg, Kerouac, Burroughs, Carr & Kammerer are all very well portrayed here. Radcliff has long ago proven himself a brave and daring actor. Foster is a chameleon, Hall is so thoroughly this character it is both sad and scary and DeHaan is a fascinating, dangerous, appealing, sexy actor of unusual qualities, though I do think his character is not thoroughly written here, but I guess the same could be said about most of them as we are skimming the surface of these intriguing & complex men. This is an interesting film for a certain audience.
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- Also known as
- Giết Người Yêu Dấu
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Box office
- Gross US & Canada
- $1,030,064
- Opening weekend US & Canada
- $53,452
- Oct 20, 2013
- Gross worldwide
- $1,877,924
- Runtime1 hour 44 minutes
- Color
- Sound mix
- Aspect ratio
- 2.35 : 1
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