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The Source

 
  • Director: Chuck Workman
  • AMG Rating: starstarstar
  • Genre: Language & Literature
  • Movie Type: Biography, Social History
  • Themes: Writer's Life, Life in the Arts, Bohemian Life
  • Main Cast: Johnny Depp, Dennis Hopper, John Turturro
  • Release Year: 1999
  • Country: US
  • Run Time: 88 minutes

Plot

Director Chuck Workman, who documented the life of pop culture icon Andy Warhol in his 1990 film Superstar, here explores the lives, works and influence of four leading lights of the "Beat Generation" of the 1950s: William S. Burroughs, Allen Ginsberg, Jack Kerouac and Neal Cassady. Cutting back and forth between archive footage of his subjects, readings of selections from the three authors by Johnny Depp, Dennis Hopper and John Turturro (Cassady was an associate and inspiration to the Beats), and film clips that in both serious and farcical fashion document the impact the Beat culture had on American society, Workman creates a fast-paced collage of sounds and images that attempts to show how the Beats became the dominant counter-cultural movement of the last half of America's 20th Century. ~ Mark Deming, All Movie Guide

Cast

Norman Mailer; Neal Cassady

Credit

Chuck Workman - Director, Chuck Workman - Editor, Hiro Yamagata - Executive Producer, David Amram - Composer (Music Score), Philip Glass - Composer (Music Score), Andrew Dintenfass - Cinematographer, Tom Hurwitz - Cinematographer, Nancy Schreiber - Cinematographer, Don Lenzer - Cinematographer, Jose Luis Mignone - Cinematographer, Chuck Workman - Producer, Chuck Workman - Screenwriter

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Heart Beat; Kerouac; What Happened to Kerouac?; Volcano: An Inquiry into the Life and Death of Malcolm Lowry; The Beat Generation: An American Dream; The Life and Times of Allen Ginsberg; Go Moan For Man; Bukowski: Born Into This; The Morrison Project; Gang of Souls
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The Source

The Source
Directed by S. Lee Taylor
Written by Roger Kristian Jones,
S. Lee Taylor
Starring Mathew Scollon,
Melissa Renée Martin,
Edward DeRuiter,
Alice Frank
Music by Mark David
William Tabanou
Distributed by The Asylum
Release date(s) 2002
Running time 97 min .
Language English

The Source is a 2002 movie, directed by S. Lee Taylor. The story concerns four teenagers who obtain superhuman powers allowing them to control others.

It released under the name The Source (The Secret Craft) in the UK. In the U.S., it was released on DVD as The Surge.

Plot

The film opens by following a moody goth named Reese, who befriends three other outcasts like him: Zack a rich nerd, Ashley who is Zack's sister and Phoebe a flower child. They go to a forest and find a glowing rock, and they discover that they gain powers from just stepping into its presence. Then they use these powers to intimidate and humiliate people who have made fun of them over the years.


However the power goes to Ashley's head and she begins to take over the school using her mind control. She attacks her brother Zack and tries to kill Phoebe and Reese. They force her to heal Zack, but then she forces Phoebe to levitate off the building, then drop. Reese heals himself when Ashley tries to control him, and breaks the piece of the rock she had around her neck. He heals Phoebe, but when they return to destroy the glowing rock, it has disappeared. Ashley ends up in a mental institute, but at the very end, a former teacher of hers brings her more of the glowing rock, the movie ends with her eyes turning blue, indicating that her powers have come back.

Main cast

  • Mathew Scollon .... Reese Hauser
  • Melissa Reneé Martin .... Ashley Bainbridge
  • Edward DeRuiter .... Zack Bainbridge
  • Alice Frank .... Phoebe Lewis
  • Johnny Venocur .... Jerry Hauser
  • Ronald Rezac .... Principal McKinley
  • Roger Kristian Jones .... Moss Man
  • Steven Glinn .... Raimy
  • Mark Wood .... Mr. Jessup
  • David Castro .... Lane
  • Paul Taviani .... Mr. Bartlett
  • Anna DeCardi .... Miss Dunn
  • David Anders .... Booji (as David Holt)
  • Cory Travalena .... Bane
  • Aaron Deakins .... Pugg

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