Howl

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.

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  James Franco

  Allen Ginsberg
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  Jon Prescott

  Neal Cassady
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  Aaron Tveit

  Peter Orlovsky
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  David Strathairn

  Ralph McIntosh
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  Jon Hamm

  Jake Ehrlich
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  Andrew Rogers

  Lawrence Ferlinghetti
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  Bob Balaban

  Judge Clayton Horn
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  Mary-Louise Parker

  Gail Potter
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  Treat Williams

  Mark Schorer
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  Jeff Daniels

  Professor David Kirk