Movielogr
Howl (2010)
Directed by Rob Epstein, Jeffrey Friedman
Overview
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.
Rated R | Length 84 minutes
Actors
James Franco | Todd Rotondi | Jon Prescott | Aaron Tveit | David Strathairn | Jon Hamm | Andrew Rogers | Bob Balaban | Mary-Louise Parker | Treat Williams | Jeff Daniels | Alessandro Nivola | Allen Ginsberg | Sean Patrick Reilly | Alex Emanuel | Cecilia Foss