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On the Road
2012
· Movie
· 142 min
D
MEANRANK
53/100
Where it ranks
- Mean Score #4958
- IMDb #4599
- Rotten Tomatoes #4293
- Metacritic #3277
- Letterboxd #4301
- Rotten Tomatoes Critics #3994
+7 more
- Rotten Tomatoes Audience #4833
- Metacritic Critics #2827
- Metacritic Audience #3842
- Criticker #2923
- Kinopoisk #4089
- AlloCiné #3806
- Trakt #4893
Every rating
34–64
out of 100
Split
Lowest is Rotten Tomatoes viewers on 34, highest is Kinopoisk on 64.
See the films the platforms disagree about most →Based on the novel by Jack Kerouac, a young writer seeks inspiration and a new way of life. He embarks on a series of cross-country road trips with his charismatic, free-spirited friend Dean Moriarty. Their journey is a search for identity and experience, filled with jazz, poetry, drugs, and a series of love affairs.
Details
- Director
- Walter Salles
- Writer
- Jose Rivera
- Based on
- On the Road by Jack Kerouac
- Released
- 22 May 2012
- Country
- Brazil, France, United Kingdom, United States
- Language
- English
- Runtime
- 142 min
- Rated
- R
- Budget
- $25.0M
- Box office
- $8.8M
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