Howl
| Score: | 8.33 / 10 |
| Released: | October 7, 2010 |
| Director: | Jeffrey Friedman, Rob Epstein |
| Producer: | Christine K. Walker, Elizabeth Redleaf |
| Studio: | Mongrel Media |
| Cast: | James Franco, David Strathairn, Jon Hamm, Bob Balaban, Alessandro Nivola, Treat Williams, Mary-Louise Parker, Jeff Daniels, Aaron Tveit |
| Genre: | Drama |
| Length: | 90 minutes |
Howl Synopsis
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.