Howl
Film201084 min6.5/10 on TMDB
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Directed by Jeffrey Friedman, Rob Epstein
The Obscenity Trial That Started a Revolution. The Poem That Rocked a Generation.
The story
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.
Watch trailerCast & crew
James FrancoAllen GinsbergTodd Rotondi
Todd 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 NicholsExplore the crew
- Director
- Jeffrey Friedman
- Director
- Rob Epstein
- Writer
- Jeffrey Friedman
- Writer
- Rob Epstein
- Producer
- Rob Epstein
- Producer
- Jeffrey Friedman
- Producer
- Christine K. Walker
- Producer
- Elizabeth Redleaf
- Editor
- Jake Pushinsky
- Original Music Composer
- Carter Burwell
- Director of Photography
- Edward Lachman