Howl

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.

• Release date
• August 26, 2010
• Runtime
• 84 min
• Genres
• Drama
• Director
• Rob Epstein

Cast

James Franco Allen Ginsberg

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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