Howl — Official Trailer

Synopsis

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.

Cast & Crew

Directed by Jeffrey Friedman

• 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

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