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Its 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, societys reaction (the obscenity trial), and animation that echoes the poems surreal style. All three coalesce in hybrid that dramatizes the birth of a counterculture.
Examining the poem "Howl" using only words from its obscenity trial, from an interview Allen Ginsberg gave then, and from the poem itself. The film intercuts a 1955 reading Ginsburg gives to an increasingly enthusiastic audience, the interview, scenes from his life described in the interview, surreal animation of segments of the poem, and scenes from the 1957 trial of Lawrence Ferlinghetti, who published "Howl" in 1956. Pivotal are his mothers mental illness and early death, friendship with Neal Cassady, struggles with homosexuality before embracing it, falling in love with Peter Orlovsky, and Ginsbergs take on the poems theme - freedom of expression.
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
Heather Klar
Jack's Girlfriend
Kaydence Frank
Allen's Girlfriend
Treat Williams
Mark Schorer
Joe Toronto
Sailor
Johary Ramos
Hustler
Nancy Spence
Neal's Girlfriend
Alessandro Nivola
Luther Nichols
Jeff Daniels
David Kirk
Allen Ginsberg
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