Overview

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.

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


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Actors


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

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