Howl

While gay, nonconformist, colorful, cigarette-smoking, 29-year-old poet Allen Ginsberg (James Franco) discusses his writing process and reads excerpts from his erotic, profanity-laden poetry from Howl and Other Poems, in 1957 in this arty, fascinating, factually inspired film interspersed with hallucinogenic animation and scenes depicting his love life with various lovers (Aaron Tveit, Jon Prescott, et al.), two San Francisco attorneys, Ralph McIntosh (David Strathairn) and Jake Ehrlich (Jon Hamm), cross-examine literary experts (Jeff Daniels, Mary-Louise Parker, Treat Williams, and Alessandro Nivola) before conservative Judge Clayton Horn (Bob Balaban) during an obscenity trial after publisher Lawrence Ferlinghetti (Andrew Rogers) published Ginberg's controversial work.
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