
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.
Release Date: 2010-08-26
Drama
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Official website: http://howlthemovie.com/
Casts

James Franco
as Allen Ginsberg

Jon Prescott
as Neal Cassady

Aaron Tveit
as Peter Orlovsky

David Strathairn
as Ralph McIntosh

Jon Hamm
as Jake Ehrlich

Andrew Rogers
as Lawrence Ferlinghetti

Bob Balaban
as Judge Clayton Horn

Mary-Louise Parker
as Gail Potter

Treat Williams
as Mark Schorer

Jeff Daniels
as Professor David Kirk