Howl
2010 · 84 MIN · IMDB 6.6 · 13,543 VOTES · DIR. Jeffrey Friedman, Rob Epstein
Overview
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.
Dialogue Timeline — 1,321 lines
A SAMPLE ACROSS THE RUNTIME — EVERY LINE IS SEARCHABLE
00:01:22 "Howl" for Carl Solomon.
00:07:28 death
00:10:24 crude, and you feel like you are going through the gutter
00:13:52 Who chained themselves to subways for the endless ride
00:17:14 Or, comes from their own life.
00:20:56 with their pushcarts full of onions and bad music
00:24:25 my eyeglasses lost, all the clothes upside down.
00:27:43 while you are not safe
00:32:21 "I mean 'bodily.'
00:35:29 "and were dragged off the roof waving genitals and manuscripts."
00:38:42 I'm asking him for his opinion, to give us an opinion on that book.
00:41:51 is not knowing whether...
00:45:38 to be able to make it in the very dry, business world
00:49:22 Moloch whose eyes are a thousand blind windows.
00:52:19 Flips and crucifixions!
00:54:41 But you don't know
00:57:37 in tears to the door of my cottage
00:59:59 it's his own observations.
01:02:28 the hospital illuminates Itself
01:05:31 Neal Cassady, secret hero of this poem
01:08:16 Let there be honesty.
01:12:16 it was an acknowledgement of the
01:15:36 Holy my mother in the Insane asylum!
01:19:05 as time will tell.
Cast & Characters
Dialogue Record
Lines indexed1,321
Dialogue density15.7 lines / min
First line00:01:22
Final line01:19:05
Production Record
DirectorJeffrey Friedman, Rob Epstein
LanguageEnglish
Budget$5,000,000
Revenue$1,183,258
IMDb votes13,543