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Oct 18, 2013 · But the film begins with the nerdy and nebbishy Ginsberg receiving his acceptance to Columbia, a place he's desperate to go to escape his dysfunctional parents, poet Louis (David Cross) and mentally unstable Naomi (Jennifer Jason Leigh).
In Theatres November 8!Kill Your Darlings is the true story of friendship and murder that led to the birth of an entire generation. This is the previously un...
Aug 4, 2013 · 61. 20K views 10 years ago. A murder in 1944 draws together the great poets of the beat generation: Allen Ginsberg, Jack Kerouac and William Burroughs. Starring Daniel Radcliffe, Dane DeHaan,...
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By Jim Vejvoda
Posted: Oct 16, 2013 12:53 am
Set during the 1940s, Kill Your Darlings follows the Columbia University years of future Beat Generation icons Allen Ginsberg (Daniel Radcliffe), William S. Burroughs (Ben Foster), Jack Kerouac (Boardwalk Empire's Jack Huston), and their friend, muse, and, in many ways, ringleader Lucien Carr (Dane DeHaan).
Ginsberg and Carr, two young men with troubled home lives, become fast friends and eventually more, but the latter's relationship with a possessive older man, failed intellectual-turned-janitor David Kammerer (Michael C. Hall), becomes the dark heart of this movie -- a relationship that ends in bitterness and bloodshed.
Kill Your Darlings makes these intellectual icons human and accessible rather than daunting and overly academic. Sure, they're pretentious, but they're also young, vulnerable and full of ambition and ideas so pretension comes with the territory. As interested as the film is in the ideas that formed the Beat movement, it's more a story about the personal freedom the Beat poets sought, specifically with sexuality at time when being gay meant being in the closet.
Radcliffe is the standout in a cast full of heavy hitters, although Ginsberg is more an observer here at times than necessarily a driving force in the plot. Radcliffe plays Ginsberg not as a Great Poet in the making but as a kid finding his way in the world; it's both a coming-of-age story and a coming out story for Ginsberg. (Radcliffe has some pretty explicit sex scenes here just to further distance himself from his Harry Potter image.)
Powered by the performances of Daniel Radcliffe and Dane DeHaan, Kill Your Darlings is as much about the meaning of the Beat Generation as it is about young men fighting their demons and embracing their passions.
Kill Your Darlings is a 2013 American biographical drama film written by Austin Bunn and directed by John Krokidas in his feature film directorial debut. The film had its world premiere at the 2013 Sundance Film Festival, garnering positive first reactions.
KILL YOUR DARLINGS is based on true events and characters.For dutiful son ALLEN GINSBERG (Daniel Radcliffe), Columbia University is Mecca—a portal to art, in...
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Bolstered by the tremendous chemistry between Daniel Radcliffe and Dane DeHaan, Kill Your Darlings casts a vivid spotlight on an early chapter in the story of the Beat Generation. Read...
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