Howl

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.

RATING

6.5 / 10

RELEASE DATE

2010-08-26

DIRECTOR

Rob Epstein

RUNNING TIME

1h 24m

Budget: $5,000,000

Revenue: $1,183,258

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Actors

Jon Prescott

Neal Cassady

Aaron Tveit

Peter Orlovsky

David Strathairn

Ralph McIntosh

Jon Hamm

Jake Ehrlich

Andrew Rogers

Lawrence Ferlinghetti