

Howl
The Obscenity Trial That Started a Revolution. The Poem That Rocked a Generation.
6.5202 votes on TMDB2010Movie1h 24m
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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James Franco
Allen Ginsberg
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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
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