Corso: The Last Beat

Corso: The Last Beat is a hybrid documentary film, with on-screen narration by Ethan Hawke and appearances by Patti Smith, Allen Ginsberg, William Burroughs and Gregory Corso. It has received high acclaim from audiences in Europe and the Middle East and is heading towards a US distribution and US festivals in early 2012. The Beat Generation’s Gregory Corso, who despite dire hardship—infant abandonment, foster homes, living in the streets of Little Italy, a teenage prison term—became one of four in the inner circle of the Beats, along with Jack Kerouac, Allen Ginsberg, William S. Burroughs... Ethan Hawke takes us on the last odyssey of GREGORY CORSO - the most colorful of the inner circle of “THE BEATS”, who along with KEROUAC, GINSBERG...