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.

• DirectorJeffrey Friedman
• Release26 August 2010
• GenreDrama
• Duration1h 24m
• Budget$5,000,000
• Revenue$1,183,258
• Rate
  

  6.5
  182 reviews
• Productions

  Rabbit Bandini Productions, Werc Werk Works, Oscilloscope