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20101h 24mREnglish

Howl

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

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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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DirectorRob Epstein

Keywords

freedompoetryliteraturepsychiatric hospitalmale homosexualitycounter-culture1950sgay theme
Budget$5M
Box Office$1M

Cast

James Franco as Allen Ginsberg

James Franco

Allen Ginsberg

Todd Rotondi as Jack Kerouac

Todd Rotondi

Jack Kerouac

Jon Prescott as Neal Cassady

Jon Prescott

Neal Cassady

Aaron Tveit as Peter Orlovsky

Aaron Tveit

Peter Orlovsky

David Strathairn as Ralph McIntosh

David Strathairn

Ralph McIntosh

Jon Hamm as Jake Ehrlich

Jon Hamm

Jake Ehrlich

Andrew Rogers as Lawrence Ferlinghetti

Andrew Rogers

Lawrence Ferlinghetti

Bob Balaban as Judge Clayton Horn

Bob Balaban

Judge Clayton Horn

Mary-Louise Parker as Gail Potter

Mary-Louise Parker

Gail Potter

Treat Williams as Mark Schorer

Treat Williams

Mark Schorer