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"Allen Ginsberg recounts the road trips, love affairs, and search for personal liberation that led to the most timeless, electrifying, and controversial work of his career. Pushing the limits and challenging the mainstream, the passionate and provocative Howl and its publisher find themselves on trial for obscenity, with prosecutor Ralph McIntosh setting out to have the book banned, while defense attorney Jake Ehrlich fervently argues for freedom of speech and creative expression."@en
"Allen Ginsberg recounts the road trips, love affairs, and search for personal liberation that led to the most timeless, electrifying, and controversial work of his career. Pushing the limits and challenging the mainstream, the passionate and provocative Howl and its publisher find themselves on trial for obscenity, with prosecutor Ralph McIntosh setting out to have the book banned, while defense attorney Jake Ehrlich fervently argues for freedom of speech and creative expression."
"James Franco stars as the young Allen Ginsberg-poet, counter-culture adventurer, and chronicler of the Beat Generation. In his famously confessional style, Ginsberg recounts the road trips, love affairs, and search for personal liberation that led to his most timeless and electrifying work: the poem Howl."
"Allen Ginsberg recounts the road trips, love affairs, and search for personal liberation that led to the most timeless, electrifying, and controversial work of his career. Pushing the limits and challenging the mainstream, the passionate and provocative Howl and its publisher find themselves on trial for obscenity, with prosecutor Ralph McIntosh setting out to have the book banned, while defense attorney Jake Ehrlich argues for freedom of speech and creative expression."
"James Franco delivers a career defining performance as poet Allen Ginsberg. Through his search for personal and creative expression, Ginsberg writes HOWL, and must contend with attorney Jake Ehrlich (Jon Hamm) during HOWL S bizarre obscenity trial."@en
"La jaquette indique : "San Francisco, 1956 Allen Ginsberg, un jeune écrivain, s'apprête à publier son premier poème : Howl. Il est alors loin d'imaginer que son oeuvre ambitieuse et révolutionnaire est sur le point de déclencher un scandale retentissant et de donner naissance à l'un des mouvements les plus importants de la littérature américaine : la Beat Generation""
"Feature film from the USA. Biopic. In 1955 beat poet Allen Ginsberg presented 'Howl'; a poem many regard as a masterpiece. The reaction to it and the obscenity trial that followed, became a key moment for the American counterculture."
"Dramatizes the events leading up to accusations of obscenity against Allen Ginsberg and his poem "Howl, " and the subsequent trial where he had to defend his most famous work."@en
"Dramatizes the events leading up to accusations of obscenity against Allen Ginsberg and his poem "Howl," and the subsequent trial where he had to defend his most famous work."
""Every word in this film was spoken by the actual people portrayed. In that sense this film is like a documentary. In every other sense, it is different"--Title screen. In 1957, in San Francisco, poet Allen Ginsberg has just published "Howl." This distinctive work immediately generates a great deal of controversy. Publisher Lawrence Ferlinghetti has been sued on charges of obscenity, as many feel the poem is simply too explicit for publication (it contains strong language and frank references to homosexuality). When prosecutor Ralph McIntosh and defender Jake Ehrlich go head to head in front of Judge Clayton Horn, freedom of expression hangs in the balance. For the author, filled with the heady joy of poetic success, the trial demands the courage of being Allen Ginsberg--himself."@en
"When the beat poet Allen Ginsberg published his poem Howl in 1957 America, he was put on trial for obscenity. This film tells his story, and illustrates the poem in animation."@en