Howl (2010)
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.
Directors: Rob Epstein, Jeffrey Friedman.
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James Franco as Allen Ginsberg |
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Todd Rotondi as Jack Kerouac |
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Jon Prescott as Neal Cassady |
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Aaron Tveit as Peter Orlovsky |
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David Strathairn as Ralph McIntosh |
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Jon Hamm as Jake Ehrlich |
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Andrew Rogers as Lawrence Ferlinghetti |
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Bob Balaban as Judge Clayton Horn |
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Mary-Louise Parker as Gail Potter |
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Treat Williams as Mark Schorer |
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Jeff Daniels as Professor David Kirk |
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Alessandro Nivola as Luther Nichols |
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Allen Ginsberg as Self |
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Sean Patrick Reilly as Six Gallery |
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Alex Emanuel as Six Gallery |
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Cecilia Foss as Beatnik Poet |
| Directing | Rob Epstein | Director |
| Directing | Jeffrey Friedman | Director |
| Writing | Jeffrey Friedman | Writer |
| Writing | Rob Epstein | Writer |
| Costume & Make-Up | Kurt Swanson | Costume Design |
| Costume & Make-Up | Bart Mueller | Costume Design |
| Production | Lynn Appelle | Line Producer |
| Production | Ken Bailey | Associate Producer |
| Production | Brian Benson | Co-Producer |
| Production | James Chan | Associate Producer |
| Production | Rob Epstein | Producer |
| Production | Jeffrey Friedman | Producer |
| Production | Kelly Gilpatrick | Associate Producer |
| Production | Peter Hale | Associate Producer |
| Production | Jawal Nga | Executive Producer |
| Production | Andrew Peterson | Co-Producer |
| Production | Elizabeth Redleaf | Producer |
| Production | Bob Rosenthal | Associate Producer |
| Production | Mark Steele | Co-Producer |
| Production | Gus Van Sant | Executive Producer |
| Production | Christine K. Walker | Producer |
| Production | Tiffany Little Canfield | Casting |
| Production | Bernard Telsey | Casting |
| Production | David Vaccari | Casting |
| Art | Thérèse DePrez | Production Design |
| Art | Russell Barnes | Art Direction |
| Art | Robert Covelman | Set Decoration |
| Camera | Edward Lachman | Director of Photography |
| Editing | Jake Pushinsky | Editor |
| Sound | Carter Burwell | Original Music Composer |
| Sound | Lora Hirschberg | Sound Re-Recording Mixer |
| Sound | Lora Hirschberg | Supervising Sound Editor |
| Camera | James McMillan | Key Grip |
