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.

• Rabbit Bandini Productions
• Werc Werk Works
• James Franco
• Todd Rotondi
• Jon Prescott
• Aaron Tveit
• David Strathairn
• Jon Hamm
• Andrew Rogers
• Bob Balaban