Howl
The Obscenity Trial That Started a Revolution. The Poem That Rocked a Generation.
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.
- Worldwide
- $1M
Who's in it
Cast
The billed ensemble, with character names. Open any performer for their Nutevio filmography.
14 billed performers
Story overview
What It's About
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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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The numbers
Box Office & Release
Howl returned 0.2× its budget worldwide.
- Budget
- $5M
- Opening weekend
- —
- Domestic gross
- —
- International gross
- —
- Worldwide gross
- $1M
- Release date
- Aug 26, 2010
- Runtime
- 1h 24m
- MPAA rating
- R
- Language
- English
- Country
- United States of America
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