Howl

Howl (2010)

The Obscenity Trial That Started a Revolution. The Poem That Rocked a Generation.

It's San Francisco in 1957, and an American masterpiece is put on trial. Howl, the film, recounts this dark moment using three interwoven threads: the tumultuous life events that led a young Allen Ginsberg to find his true voice as an artist, society's reaction (the obscenity trial), and mind-expanding animation that echoes the startling originality of the poem itself. All three coalesce in a genre-bending hybrid that brilliantly captures a pivotal moment-the birth of a counterculture.

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  • Release Date: 2010-08-26
  • Runtime: 1h 24min
  • Directors: Rob Epstein, Jeffrey Friedman.

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    Cast

    • James Franco

      Allen Ginsberg

    • Todd Rotondi

      Jack Kerouac

    • Jon Prescott

      Neal Cassady

    • Aaron Tveit

      Peter Orlovsky

    • David Strathairn

      Ralph McIntosh

    • Jon Hamm

      Jake Ehrlich

    • Andrew Rogers

      Lawrence Ferlinghetti

    • Bob Balaban

      Judge Clayton Horn

    • Mary-Louise Parker

      Gail Potter

    • Treat Williams

      Mark Schorer

    • Jeff Daniels

      Professor David Kirk

    • Alessandro Nivola

      Luther Nichols

    • Allen Ginsberg

      Self

    • Sean Patrick Reilly

      Six Gallery

    • Alex Emanuel

      Six Gallery

    • Cecilia Foss

      Beatnik Poet

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