Howl

Release date: Aug 26, 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

Top Cast

Allen Ginsberg

Jack Kerouac

Neal Cassady

Peter Orlovsky

Ralph McIntosh

Jake Ehrlich

Lawrence Ferlinghetti

Judge Clayton Horn

Gail Potter

Mark Schorer

Professor David Kirk

Luther Nichols

Himself

Six Gallery

Six Gallery

Beatnik Poet

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