August 26, 2010
84 minutes
Drama
Howl
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
(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)
Allen Ginsberg
(Self)
Sean Patrick Reilly
(Six Gallery)
Alex Emanuel
(Six Gallery)
Cecilia Foss
(Beatnik Poet)
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