Howl (2010)

Howl (2010) Country: USA Release Year: 2010 Director: Rob Epstein, Jeffrey Friedman Writer: Rob Epstein, Jeffrey Friedman Language: English Genre: Biography, Drama  Runtime: 81 min Cast: James Franco, David Strathairn Jon Hamm, Bob Balaban Alessandro Nivola, Treat Williams Studio: Werc Werk Works, The Match Factory RabbitBandini Productions, Telling Pictures Imdb: http://www.imdb.com/title/tt1049402/ Available on:

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 animation that echoes the poem's surreal style. All three coalesce in hybrid that dramatizes the birth of a counterculture.