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Howl
2010, Aug 26
1h 24m
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.
Directed by
Rob Epstein, Jeffrey Friedman
Written by
Rob Epstein, Jeffrey Friedman
James Franco
Allen Ginsberg
Jon Hamm
Jake Ehrlich
Mary-Louise Parker
Gail Potter
Treat Williams
Mark Schorer
David Strathairn
Ralph McIntosh
Jeff Daniels
Professor David Kirk
Alessandro Nivola
Luther Nichols
Aaron Tveit
Peter Orlovsky
Bob Balaban
Judge Clayton Horn
Allen Ginsberg
Self
Alex Emanuel
Six Gallery
Sean Patrick Reilly
Six Gallery
Jon Prescott
Neal Cassady
Andrew Rogers
Lawrence Ferlinghetti
Cecilia Foss
Beatnik Poet
Todd Rotondi
Jack Kerouac
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