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Summary

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.


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Cast

  • James Franco

    James Franco

    Allen Ginsberg

  • Jon Prescott

    Jon Prescott

    Neal Cassady

  • Aaron Tveit

    Aaron Tveit

    Peter Orlovsky

  • David Strathairn

    David Strathairn

    Ralph McIntosh

  • Jon Hamm

    Jon Hamm

    Jake Ehrlich

  • Andrew Rogers

    Andrew Rogers

    Lawrence Ferlinghetti

  • Bob Balaban

    Bob Balaban

    Judge Clayton Horn

  • Mary-Louise Parker

    Mary-Louise Parker

    Gail Potter

  • Treat Williams

    Treat Williams

    Mark Schorer

  • Jeff Daniels

    Jeff Daniels

    Professor David Kirk

  • Alessandro Nivola

    Alessandro Nivola

    Luther Nichols

  • Allen Ginsberg

    Allen Ginsberg

    Himself

  • Sean Patrick Reilly

    Sean Patrick Reilly

    Six Gallery

  • Alex Emanuel

    Alex Emanuel

    Six Gallery

  • Cecilia Foss

    Cecilia Foss

    Beatnik Poet