Kill Your Darlings

20132013
RR
1h 44min

Daniel Radcliffe and Dane DeHaan in Kill Your Darlings (2013)

While he is attending Columbia University in 1944, the young Allen GinsbergÃ¢Â€Â™s life is turned upside down when he sets eyes on Lucien Carr, an impossibly cool and boyishly handsome classmate. Carr opens Ginsberg up to a bohemian world and introduces him to William Burroughs and Jack Kerouac.

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A murder in 1944 draws together the great poets of the beat generation: Allen Ginsberg, Jack Kerouac, and William Burroughs.A murder in 1944 draws together the great poets of the beat generation: Allen Ginsberg, Jack Kerouac, and William Burroughs.A murder in 1944 draws together the great poets of the beat generation: Allen Ginsberg, Jack Kerouac, and William Burroughs.

Director
- John Krokidas
Writers
- Austin Bunn(screenplay)
- John Krokidas(screenplay)
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Awards
- 5 wins & 12 nominations

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Director
- John Krokidas
Writers
- Austin Bunn(screenplay) (story)
- John Krokidas(screenplay)
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In the early 1940s, Allen Ginsberg is an English major at Columbia University, only to learn more than he bargained for. Dissatisfied by the orthodox attitudes of the school, Allen finds himself drawn to iconoclastic colleagues like Lucien Carr, William S. Burroughs and Jack Kerouac. Together, this gang would explore bold new literary ideas that would challenge the sensibilities of their time as the future Beat Generation. However, for all their creativity, their very appetites and choices lead to more serious transgressions that would mark their lives forever. —Kenneth Chisholm (kchishol@rogers.com)

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Taglines
- A true story of obsession and murder
Genres
Motion Picture Rating (MPAA)
- Rated R for sexual content, language, drug use and brief violence
Parents guide

Trivia
In 2008, while performing the Broadway play Equus, Daniel Radcliffe auditioned and got the part of Allen Ginsberg. Radcliffe went on to film the last two Harry Potter movies, Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows: Part 1 (2010) and Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows: Part 2 (2011), and with him unavailable for filming, Chris Evans, Jesse Eisenberg, and Ben Whishaw were cast without Radcliffe. Shortly after, financing for the film fell through. When director John Krokidas started again with the film, he offered the role of Allen Ginsberg back to Radcliffe.

Goofs
Jack Kerouac, upon his arrest, contacts his father and we hear an American accent on the line. Kerouac's parents were French-speaking Quebecois and it took Jack until his late teens to fully master English, which he spoke with a slight Québec lilt; it is thus unlikely his father and he would have spoken in English, much less in a General American accent.

Quotes
Allen Ginsberg: Some things, once you've loved them, become yours forever./And if you try to let them go... /They only circle back and return to you./They become part of who you are...
Lucien Carr: ...or they destroy you.

Crazy credits
The first part of the end credits run over the top of photographs of the real Allen Ginsberg, Jack Kerouac, Lucien Carr and William S. Burroughs.

Connections
Featured in Film '72: Episode dated 3 December 2013 (2013)

Soundtracks
Lilli Marlene
Written by Norbert Schultze, Hans Leip, Tommie Connor
Performed by Anne Shelton, Stanley Black and his Orchestra
Published by Edward B Marks Music Company
Courtesy of Decca Music Group Limited under license from Universal Music Enterprises

Top review

10/10

Absolutely amazing.

I had the opportunity to see this movie at the Sundance film festival this year. Absolutely amazing. John Krokidas is a visionary. This is proof that there is an acting life for Daniel Radcliffe after Harry Potter. It is a thrilling and provocative must see. The film flows beautifully and keeps you entranced. This film pushes the limits to new depths that the industry is in desperate need of. I left the film feeling like my mind had been opened to a whole new level. I will watch this movie again and again. But keep in mind it is not for the faint of heart, it is very intense. If you want passion, betrayal, sex, drugs and as rock and roll as the 40's can get, this is your movie.

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Release date
- September 19, 2013 (Croatia)
Country of origin
- United States
Official sites
- Official Facebook Page
- Official site
Language
- English
Also known as
- Sevdiklerini Öldür
Filming locations
- Columbia University, New York City, New York, USA
Production companies
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Gross US & Canada
- $1,030,064
Opening weekend US & Canada
- $53,452
- Oct 20, 2013
Gross worldwide
- $1,877,924

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Runtime
- 1h 44min
Color
- Color
Sound mix
- Dolby Digital
Aspect ratio
- 2.35 : 1

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