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Plot Summary
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.
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Rotten Tomatoes Movie Reviews
TOMATOMETER
63%- Reviews Counted: 102
- Fresh: 64
- Rotten: 38
- Average Rating: 6.4/10
Top Critics' Reviews
Rotten: Admirable if fundamentally academic.
Fresh: What could have been a trivial exercise in nostalgia instead becomes a powerful case for the cathartic power of art.
Fresh: It's sweet stuff, a portrait of an artist in turmoil, under fire and laying himself bare. Howl captures Howl beautifully.
Fresh: It's about literature itself, the ways in which it works on the reader and the folly of applying some objective standard of decency and meaning to words on a page.
Customer Reviews
brilliant !
James Franco does an outstanding job of portraying Allen Ginsberg, and I overall very much enjoyed the film. The only complaint I have is the animated sequences in which Allen is reading 'Howl'. I felt they were a bit unnecessary.
best freaking movie you could have the pleasure of watching
do urself a favor and watch this film (also i recommend reading the poem beforehand bc it is one of the most amazing pieces of literature that will grace ur sad lil soul
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