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 animation that echoes the poem’s surreal style. All three coalesce in hybrid that dramatizes the birth of a counterculture.
Release Date: 27 August 2010Runtime: 84 min
Stars:
- Aaron Tveit
- Andrew Rogers
- Bob Balaban
- David Strathairn
- Heather Klar
- James Franco
- Joe Toronto
- Johary Ramos
- Jon Hamm
- Jon Prescott
- Kaydence Frank
- Mary-Louise Parker
- Nancy Spence
- Todd Rotondi
- Treat Williams
Director: Jeffrey Friedman
