Howl (2010)
"The Obscenity Trial That Started a Revolution. The Poem That Rocked a Generation."
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.
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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Mary-Louise Parker
Gail Potter
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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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Allen Ginsberg
Self
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Sean Patrick Reilly
Six Gallery
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