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.
Cast
- 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