6.5 / 10
(178 votes)
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.
United States of America
Drama
84 minutes
2010
Rob Epstein
Rabbit Bandini Productions,
Werc Werk Works,
Oscilloscope
$5,000,000
$1,183,258
2016
7.2
2018
4.0
2009
6.0
1992
7.0
2007
5.4
2002
4.0
1968
4.8
1990
7.0
1960
6.3
2021
0.0
2002
6.8
2001
7.0
2017
4.5
1995
7.3
2019
5.1
1993
7.2
2021
10.0
2018
5.8
2024
8.0
2018
4.9