
Howl (2010)
1h 24m | PG-13
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.
Director: Rob Epstein
Studio: Rabbit Bandini Productions
Genre: Drama
Video: 720p
Cast

James Franco
as Allen Ginsberg

Todd Rotondi
as Jack Kerouac

Jon Prescott
as Neal Cassady

Aaron Tveit
as Peter Orlovsky

David Strathairn
as Ralph McIntosh

Jon Hamm
as Jake Ehrlich