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Beat poet icon Allen Ginsberg in "HOWL" (2010)

A splashy premiere title at the 2010 Sundance Film Festival, this Ginsberg bio-pic found only limited success in theaters. Franco delivered one of his best performances yet, but the work was quickly overshadowed by another film that hit theaters soon after…

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