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Poster for Howl

2010

Howl

TMDB 6.5

1h 24m · 26 Aug 2010

Drama

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 byJeffrey Friedman, Rob Epstein

Cast

  • James FrancoAllen Ginsberg
  • Todd RotondiJack Kerouac
  • Jon PrescottNeal Cassady
  • Aaron TveitPeter Orlovsky
  • David StrathairnRalph McIntosh
  • Jon HammJake Ehrlich
  • Andrew RogersLawrence Ferlinghetti
  • Bob BalabanJudge Clayton Horn
  • Mary-Louise ParkerGail Potter
  • Treat WilliamsMark Schorer

Where to watch

Streaming in United States

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