Beat

A game cast in period drag marches through standard-issue biopic cliches while spouting literary-flavored dialogue. During the late forties and early fifties, a loose-knit coterie of free thinkers coalesced into the Beat Movement. The circle's most influential member, New York-based journalist Lucien Carr (Norman Reedus), brought together gay poet Allen Ginsberg (Ron Livingston), rolling stone Jack Kerouac (Daniel Martinez), bisexual novelist William S. Burroughs (Kiefer Sutherland) and Burroughs' patient wife, Joan Vollmer (Courtney Love). Nerdy gay professor Dave Kammerer (Kyle Secor) circles the periphery of the in crowd and has an intense crush on the charismatic...