Details
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.
- Drama
- English
Cast & Crew
- James Franco , Todd Rotondi , Jon Prescott , Aaron Tveit , David Strathairn , Jon Hamm , Andrew Rogers , Bob Balaban
- Rob Epstein, Jeffrey Friedman
- Gus Van Sant, Jawal Nga