Howl (2010)
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.
Drama
Cast
- James Franco — Allen Ginsberg
- Todd Rotondi — Jack Kerouac
- Jon Prescott — Neal Cassady
- Aaron Tveit — Peter Orlovsky
- David Strathairn — Ralph McIntosh
- Jon Hamm — Jake Ehrlich
- Andrew Rogers — Lawrence Ferlinghetti
- Bob Balaban — Judge Clayton Horn
- Mary-Louise Parker — Gail Potter
- Treat Williams — Mark Schorer
- Jeff Daniels — Professor David Kirk
- Alessandro Nivola — Luther Nichols
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