Released:
2010-08-26

Overview:
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.

Directors:
Rob Epstein, Jeffrey Friedman

Runtime:
1h 24min

Genre:
Drama

• Cast:
• 
  James Franco
  as
  Allen Ginsberg
• 
  Todd Rotondi
  as
  Jack Kerouac
• 
  Jon Prescott
  as
  Neal Cassady
• 
  Aaron Tveit
  as
  Peter Orlovsky
• 
  David Strathairn
  as
  Ralph McIntosh