

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. All three coalesce in a genre-bending hybrid that brilliantly captures a pivotal moment-the birth of a counterculture.
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- Status
- Released
- Budget
- $5M
- Box office
- $1.2M
- Language
- English
- freedom
- poetry
- literature
- psychiatric hospital
- male homosexuality
- counter-culture
- 1950s
- gay theme
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Produced in
United States of America
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Release dates
United StatesUS
- PremiereSundance Film Festival21 Jan 2010
- TheatricalR24 Sept 2010
CzechiaCZ
- Theatrical11 Nov 2010
FinlandFI
- TheatricalK 1125 Mar 2011
FranceFR
- Theatrical15 Feb 2012
GermanyDE
- PremiereBerlin International Film Festival12 Feb 2010
ItalyIT
- Theatrical26 Aug 2010
NetherlandsNL
- Theatrical1226 May 2011
- Physical12Blu ray17 Jun 2011
- Physical12DVD17 Nov 2011
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Howl was released on 26 August 2010.
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