Howl

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.

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

Mary-Louise Parker

Gail Potter

Treat Williams

Mark Schorer

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