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