Madman is proud to present the DVD release of HOWL, featuring an all-star cast led by James Franco, the Oscar®-nominated star of Danny Boyle’s 127 HOURS.

In HOWL, the charismatic James Franco (SPIDER MAN, FREAKS & GEEKS) heads up a stellar cast as the young Allen Ginsberg, whose seminal, incendiary work comes to life through a mix of live-action and animation – crossing between the events that led to a young Allen Ginsberg finding his voice; the nature of the poem itself via surreal animation; and a San Francisco courtroom where Ginsberg’s work is on trial.

Utilising solely the text of Ginsberg’s autobiographical, homoerotic poem, transcripts of its trial for obscenity, and audio interviews with Ginsberg himself, HOWL is an in-depth profile of the man and the poem that woke America from its prim post-war malaise. Franco’s Beat poet finds his place in the counter culture of San Francisco in the late 1950s, alongside such icons as future-author Jack Kerouac, sowing the seeds for the sexual revolution of the 1960s.

HOWL is simultaneously a portrait of a renegade artist breaking down barriers and an imaginative ride through a creative masterpiece that rocked a generation.

HOWL is available on DVD June 1st, 2011 – $34.95srp.