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Howl (15)
- Consumer Advice: Contains strong language, once very strong, and strong sex references
- Run time: 1 hour 21 mins
- Genre: Drama
- Release date: 25th February 2011
- Starring: James Franco, Jon Hamm, Mary-Louise Parker
- Directed by: Rob Epstein, Jeffrey Friedman
- Distributor: Soda Pictures
Plot 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.