Howl

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.

CastCrewDetailsGenres

James FrancoAllen Ginsberg

TTodd RotondiJack Kerouac

Jon PrescottNeal Cassady

Aaron TveitPeter Orlovsky

David StrathairnRalph McIntosh

Jon HammJake Ehrlich

Andrew RogersLawrence Ferlinghetti

Bob BalabanJudge Clayton Horn

Mary-Louise ParkerGail Potter

Treat WilliamsMark Schorer

Jeff DanielsProfessor David Kirk

Alessandro NivolaLuther Nichols

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