Howl

8 votes and 3 Reviews

Rotten Tomatoes® Score
63% 58%

Release Date: October 7, 2010 (limited)

On DVD/VOD: January 11, 2011

1h 30m | Drama

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.