Howl
2010 · ★ 6.6 · Dir. Rob Epstein
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.
- Released
- 2010-08-26
- Runtime
- 84 min
- Rated
- R
- Language
- EN
- Budget
- $5M
- Box office
- $1.2M
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James Franco
Allen Ginsberg
Jon Hamm
Jake Ehrlich
Mary-Louise Parker
Gail Potter
Treat Williams
Mark Schorer
Jeff Daniels
Professor David Kirk
David Strathairn
Ralph McIntosh
Andrew Rogers
Lawrence Ferlinghetti
Alessandro Nivola
Luther Nichols
Aaron Tveit
Peter Orlovsky
Bob Balaban
Judge Clayton Horn
Allen Ginsberg
Himself
Sean Patrick Reilly
Six Gallery
Keywords
Freedom1950sCounter-cultureMale homosexualityGayPsychiatric hospitalPoetryIndependent filmLiterature
