On the Road
"The best teacher is experience."
Sal Paradise is a young writer whose life is shaken and ultimately redefined by the arrival of Dean Moriarty, a free-spirited, fearless, fast talking Westerner and his girl, Marylou.Traveling cross-country, Sal and Dean venture out on a personal quest for freedom from the conformity and conservatism engulfing them in search of the unknown, themselves, and the pursuit of “it” -- the pure essence of experience.
- Director
- Walter Salles
- Worldwide
- $9M
Who's in it
Cast
The billed ensemble, with character names. Open any performer for their Nutevio filmography.
32 billed performers
Story overview
What It's About
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Sal Paradise is a young writer whose life is shaken and ultimately redefined by the arrival of Dean Moriarty, a free-spirited, fearless, fast talking Westerner and his girl, Marylou. Traveling cross-country, Sal and Dean venture out on a personal quest for freedom from the conformity and conservatism engulfing them in search of the unknown, themselves, and the pursuit of “it” -- the pure essence of experience.
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The numbers
Box Office & Release
On the Road returned 0.4× its budget worldwide.
- Budget
- $25M
- Opening weekend
- —
- Domestic gross
- —
- International gross
- —
- Worldwide gross
- $9M
- Release date
- May 22, 2012
- Runtime
- 2h 22m
- MPAA rating
- R
- Language
- English, French
- Country
- Brazil, France
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