Who Owns Jack Kerouac? A film by Jack Shea (circa 2000-2003) - Jack Shea’s Who Owns Jack Kerouac? is a powerful and controversial documentary exploring the relationship between the author of “On the Road” and his never acknowledged daughter, Jan Kerouac (Baby Driver). The film is a record of Shea’s cross-country journey searching for answers to the controversy over Kerouac’s estate. Jack Shea (1950-2004) is an ex-patriot American artist, filmmaker, and singer/songwriter who lived and worked in Edinburgh, Scotland. Beat poet Ron Whitehead called “Who Owns Jack Kerouac” the most important film ever made about Kerouac.