Howl (2010)
"The Obscenity Trial That Started a Revolution. The Poem That Rocked a Generation."
Critics Score
🎬 63%
(RT: 63%, MC: 63) RT = Rotten Tomatoes (critic reviews). MC = Metacritic (weighted critic average). Critics Score is the average of both.
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Cast
Todd Rotondi as Jack Kerouac
Jon Prescott as Neal Cassady
Aaron Tveit as Peter Orlovsky
Andrew Rogers as Lawrence Ferlinghetti
Is Howl good?
Most people think so. 71% of audiences gave it a thumbs up, by Google's archived audience score. Critics agree, scoring it 63%.
Overview
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. Wikipedia ↗
