The Beat
A New York teacher indulges a mad high school poet who sees himself as a mythic hero.

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William McNamara
William West McNamara (born March 31, 1965) is an American actor. Description above from the Wikipedia article William McNamara, licensed under CC-BY-SA, full list of contributors on Wikipedia.
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Markus Flanagan
Markus Flanagan (born August 20, 1964) is an American actor.
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John Savage
John Savage (born John Youngs) is an American film actor, producer, production manager, and composer. Savage has appeared in more than 200 feature films, short films, recurring roles in television series and guest appearances in episodes of television series. One of Savage's first notable roles is as Claude Bukowski in the 1979 film Hair. His first major film role was as Steven Pushkov in the multiple Oscar-winning 1978 film The Deer Hunter. He also had a lead role in the 1979 film The Onion Field. In the late 1970s, he performed in the Broadway production of David Mamet's play American Buffalo. In 1991, he starred in Italian director Lucio Fulci's final film Door to Silence. He then had a brief role in the 1998 war film The Thin Red Line, portrayed Captain Ransom in the two part episode Equinox of the television series Star Trek: Voyager in 1999, and appeared in the recurring role of Donald Lydecker in the first and second seasons of the 2000 television series Dark Angel. Savage starred in the 2015 horror film Tales of Halloween, the 2017 film In Dubious Battle, and on the 2017 continuation of the television show Twin Peaks. In 2018, he appeared on the television show Goliath. In 2018, Savage lent his voice to a monologue on the title track of the album This Town by Steve Smith of Dirty Vegas. In 2019, Savage played the role of The Narrator in upcoming fantasy crime drama Karma from award-winning filmmaker Bizhan Tong, having collaborated with him earlier that year.
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Jack McGee
Jack McGee (born 1948) is an American television and film character actor. He has appeared in over 100 films and television shows. McGee is perhaps best known as Chief Jerry Reilly on the television series Rescue Me. He was a regular cast member on the FX series for three seasons. In 2010, he co-starred as Hickey on the Spike TV comedy series Players. ​From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
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Movie Details
Production Info
- Director:
- Paul Mones
- Writer:
- Paul Mones
- Production:
- Vestron Pictures
Key Crew
- Cinematography:
- Tom DiCillo
- Editor:
- Tom DiCillo
- Music:
- Carter Burwell
- Title Designer:
- Dan Perri
Locations and Languages
- Country:
- US
- Filming:
- US
- Languages:
- en