Esquire.com’s Erik Price reviews One Fast Move or I’m Gone: Kerouac’s Big Sur, which is now out in theatres and on DVD. According to Price’s report, the film covers a period in Kerouac’s life “post-On the Road period — a time when Kerouac descended into extreme alcoholism and even self-loathing…” This was also the same period where he spent a lot of time alone, in a friend’s cabin, trying to deal with his personal issues. Price goes on to state that it was during this same time that the legendary American author penned Big Sur, “which in many ways turned out to be his first-person account of a nervous breakdown…”

Check out the trailer for Curt Worden’s One Fast Move, which features commentary from Tom Waits among others. Also of interest might be the fact that the soundtrack consists largely of original material by Death Cab for Cuties Ben Gibbard and Jay Farrar of Son Volt.