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Howl

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

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R 2010 · 1h 24m
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Starring James Franco · Jon Prescott · Aaron Tveit
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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.

Theatrical
Sep 24, 2010
DVD / Blu-ray
Jan 4, 2011
Box Office
$1.2M
Budget
$5.0M
Return
0.2x
Directors
Jeffrey Friedman, Rob Epstein
Producers
Bob Rosenthal, Lynn Appelle, Rob Epstein
Music
Carter Burwell
Studio
Rabbit Bandini Productions, Werc Werk Works, Oscilloscope
Keywords
poetry literature freedom male homosexuality psychiatric hospital counter-culture 1950s gay theme
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James Franco
Allen Ginsberg
J
Jon Prescott
Neal Cassady
A
Aaron Tveit
Peter Orlovsky
D
David Strathairn
Ralph McIntosh
Jon Hamm
Jon Hamm
Jake Ehrlich
A
Andrew Rogers
Lawrence Ferlinghetti
B
Bob Balaban
Judge Clayton Horn
M
Mary-Louise Parker
Gail Potter
T
Treat Williams
Mark Schorer
J
Jeff Daniels
Professor David Kirk
A
Alessandro Nivola
Luther Nichols
A
Allen Ginsberg
Self
S
Sean Patrick Reilly
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A
Alex Emanuel
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