Howl

Howl

2010 · Movie

84 min English

201 votes

Drama

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…

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Cast, directors & writers

James Franco

Allen Ginsberg

Todd Rotondi

Jack Kerouac

Jon Prescott

Neal Cassady

Aaron Tveit

Peter Orlovsky

David Strathairn

Ralph McIntosh

Jon Hamm

Jake Ehrlich

Andrew Rogers

Lawrence Ferlinghetti

Bob Balaban

Judge Clayton Horn

Mary-Louise Parker

Gail Potter

Treat Williams

Mark Schorer

Jeff Daniels

Professor David Kirk

Alessandro Nivola

Luther Nichols

Sean Patrick Reilly

Six Gallery

Alex Emanuel

Six Gallery

Cecilia Foss

Beatnik Poet

Jeffrey Friedman

Director · Writer

Rob Epstein

Director · Writer

Keywords

freedom poetry literature psychiatric hospital male homosexuality counter-culture 1950s gay theme

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