Howl
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 animation that echoes the poem's surreal style. All three coalesce in hybrid that dramatizes the birth of a counterculture.
Direction
Screenplay
Cast
James Franco
Allen Ginsberg
Bob Balaban
Judge Clayton Horn
David Strathairn
Ralph McIntosh
Jon Hamm
Jake Ehrlich
Mary-Louise Parker
Gail Potter
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Todd Rotondi
Jack Kerouac
Jon Prescott
Neal Cassady
Aaron Tveit
Peter Orlovsky
Treat Williams
Mark Schorer
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Carter Burwell
Composer
Edward Lachman
Cinematographer
