Howl
2010, Film, 84 min, Biography, Drama, Romance, English, United States, MoviePedia score 65
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.
Directed by Rob Epstein, Jeffrey Friedman
Cast
- James Franco as Allen Ginsberg
- Bob Balaban as Judge Clayton Horn
- David Strathairn as Ralph McIntosh
- Jon Hamm as Jake Ehrlich
- Mary-Louise Parker as Gail Potter
- Todd Rotondi as Jack Kerouac
- Jon Prescott as Neal Cassady
- Aaron Tveit as Peter Orlovsky
- Treat Williams as Mark Schorer
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