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Howl

65 %|Aug 26, 2010|Drama

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.

Featured Crew

Jeffrey Friedman
Director
Jeffrey Friedman
Writer
Rob Epstein
Writer
Rob Epstein
Director
Jake Pushinsky
Editor
Edward Lachman
Director of Photography
Carter Burwell
Original Music Composer
Kurt Swanson
Costume Design

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Cast

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James Franco
Allen Ginsberg
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Todd Rotondi
Jack Kerouac
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Jon Prescott
Neal Cassady
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Aaron Tveit
Peter Orlovsky
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David Strathairn
Ralph McIntosh
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Jon Hamm
Jake Ehrlich
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Andrew Rogers
Lawrence Ferlinghetti
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Bob Balaban
Judge Clayton Horn
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Treat Williams
Mark Schorer
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Jeff Daniels
Professor David Kirk
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Alessandro Nivola
Luther Nichols
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Alex Emanuel
Six Gallery
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Cecilia Foss
Beatnik Poet