Howl backdrop

Howl poster

Quick Info

Rating

6.5/10

Release2010

Runtime1h 24m

StatusReleased

Budget$5,000,000

Revenue$1,183,258

Production

Rabbit Bandini Productions

Werc Werk Works

Oscilloscope

Movie

Howl

2010

1h 24m

6.5

Drama

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.

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