Howl
The Obscenity Trial That Started a Revolution. The Poem That Rocked a Generation.
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
James FrancoAllen Ginsberg - T
Todd RotondiJack Kerouac 
Jon PrescottNeal Cassady 
Aaron TveitPeter Orlovsky 
David StrathairnRalph McIntosh 
Jon HammJake Ehrlich 
Andrew RogersLawrence Ferlinghetti 
Bob BalabanJudge Clayton Horn 
Mary-Louise ParkerGail Potter 
Treat WilliamsMark Schorer 
Jeff DanielsProfessor David Kirk 
Alessandro NivolaLuther Nichols 
Allen GinsbergSelf 
Sean Patrick ReillySix Gallery 
Alex EmanuelSix Gallery 
Cecilia FossBeatnik Poet
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