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 as Allen Ginsberg
Todd Rotondi as Jack Kerouac
Jon Prescott as Neal Cassady
Aaron Tveit as Peter Orlovsky
David Strathairn as Ralph McIntosh
Jon Hamm as Jake Ehrlich
Andrew Rogers as Lawrence Ferlinghetti
Bob Balaban as Judge Clayton Horn
Mary-Louise Parker as Gail Potter
Treat Williams as Mark Schorer
Jeff Daniels as Professor David Kirk
Alessandro Nivola as Luther Nichols
Allen Ginsberg as Self
Sean Patrick Reilly as Six Gallery
Alex Emanuel as Six Gallery
Cecilia Foss as Beatnik Poet
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