Howl

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Release date: August 26, 2010
Duration: 84 minutes
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Overview

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.

Starring

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James Franco
Allen Ginsberg
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Jon Prescott
Neal Cassady
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Aaron Tveit
Peter Orlovsky
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David Strathairn
Ralph McIntosh