On the Road is a 2012
adventure drama film directed by
Walter Salles. It is an
adaptation of
Jack Kerouac's 1957
novel of the same name and stars an
ensemble cast featuring
Garrett Hedlund,
Sam Riley,
Kristen Stewart,
Alice Braga,
Amy Adams,
Tom Sturridge, Danny Morgan,
Elisabeth Moss,
Kirsten Dunst, and
Viggo Mortensen. The executive producer was
Francis Ford Coppola. Filming began on August 4, 2010, in
Montreal,
Quebec, with a $25 million budget. The story is based on the years Kerouac spent travelling the United States in the late 1940s with his friend
Neal Cassady and several other
Beat Generation figures who would go on to fame in their own right, including
William S. Burroughs and
Allen Ginsberg. On May 23, 2012, the film premiered in competition for the
Palme d'Or at the
2012 Cannes Film Festival. The film received mixed early reviews after it premiered at the film festival. The film also premiered at the
2012 Toronto International Film Festival in September.