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6.4
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Critic A.A. Dowd
rated 6

...one-time wizard Daniel Radcliffe returns to the hallowed halls of academia, this time to play a bespectacled literary icon of a different sort: a teenaged, painfully shy Allen Ginsberg, the artist as a closeted young man.

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Cast & Crew

John Krokidas
Director
David Cross
As Louis Ginsberg
Jennifer Jason Leigh
As Naomi Ginsberg
David Rasche
As Dean
Kyra Sedgwick
As Marian Carr (uncredited)
Ben Foster
As William Burroughs
Daniel Radcliffe
As Allen Ginsberg
Jack Huston
As Allen Ginsberg

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In the early 1940s, a group of young writers, including Allen Ginsberg, Jack Kerouac, and William S. Burroughs, came together at Columbia University in New York City. They were united by their passion for literature and their desire to break free from the constraints of society and tradition. As they delved deeper into their craft, they became embroiled in a web of drugs, alcohol, and sexual experimentation. Their lives took a dark turn when one of their own, David Kammerer, was found brutally murdered. Lucien Carr, a charismatic and troubled young man who was the central figure in the group's social circle, was arrested for the crime. As the investigation unfolded, it became clear that Kammerer had been involved in a predatory relationship with Carr and had pressured him into sexual favors in exchange for academic assistance. As Ginsberg spirals into the lifestyle of drugs ,alcohol ,and cigarettes along with his new-found friends ,he slowly starts developing romantic feelings for Carr .Carr tells Kammerer he is done with him and recruits Ginsberg to write his term papers instead .Kammarer in retaliation Put's Kerouac's cat into oven only for Kerouac to discover an rescue it at night .After while Kerouac an carr attempt to run off join th merchant marine together hoping Paris .In confrontation between carr an kammerer Kammerer is killed by stabbing n car is arrested .Carr asks ginsburg write this deposition form him ginsburg at first reluctant help unstable care after digging up more mindful evidence On k fiction description nruary event .

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Kill Your Darlings was released in theaters on October 16, 2013.