Howl

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.

• Rob EpsteinWriter
• Jeffrey FriedmanWriter
• Rob EpsteinDirector
• Jeffrey FriedmanDirector
• Carter BurwellOriginal Music Composer

• James FrancoAllen Ginsberg
• Todd RotondiJack Kerouac
• Jon PrescottNeal Cassady
• Aaron TveitPeter Orlovsky
• David StrathairnRalph McIntosh
• Jon HammJake Ehrlich
• Andrew RogersLawrence Ferlinghetti
• Bob BalabanJudge Clayton Horn
• Mary-Louise ParkerGail Potter
• Treat WilliamsMark Schorer
• Jeff DanielsProfessor David Kirk
• Alessandro NivolaLuther Nichols