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.
Dramafreedompoetryliteraturepsychiatric hospitalmale homosexualitycounter-culture1950sgay theme
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Cast
- James FrancoAllen Ginsberg
- Todd RotondiJack Kerouac
- Jon PrescottNeal Cassady
- Aaron TveitPeter Orlovsky
- David StrathairnRalph McIntosh
- Jon HammJake Ehrlich
- Andrew RogersLawrence Ferlinghetti
- Bob BalabanJudge Clayton Horn
- Mary-Louise ParkerGail Potter
- Treat WilliamsMark Schorer
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- Rob EpsteinDirector
- Jeffrey FriedmanDirector
- Rob EpsteinWriter
- Jeffrey FriedmanWriter
- Edward LachmanDirector of Photography
- Carter BurwellOriginal Music Composer
- Jake PushinskyEditor
- Jeffrey FriedmanProducer
- Elizabeth RedleafProducer
- Rob EpsteinProducer
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