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Kill Your Darlings

  • 20132013
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  • 1h 44m
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Daniel Radcliffe and Dane DeHaan in Kill Your Darlings (2013)
    While he is attending Columbia University in 1944, the young Allen Ginsberg’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.
IMDb RATING
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39K
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    • John Krokidas
    • Austin Bunn(screenplay)
    • John Krokidas(screenplay)
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    • Daniel Radcliffe
    • Dane DeHaan
    • Michael C. Hall
    • John Krokidas
    • Austin Bunn(screenplay)
    • John Krokidas(screenplay)
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    • Daniel Radcliffe
    • Dane DeHaan
    • Michael C. Hall
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    • 65Metascore
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    Daniel Radcliffe
    Daniel Radcliffe
    • Allen Ginsberg
    Dane DeHaan
    Dane DeHaan
    • Lucien Carr
    Michael C. Hall
    Michael C. Hall
    • David Kammerer
    Ben Foster
    Ben Foster
    • William Burroughs
    Jack Huston
    Jack Huston
    • Jack Kerouac
    David Cross
    David Cross
    • Louis Ginsberg
    Jennifer Jason Leigh
    Jennifer Jason Leigh
    • Naomi Ginsberg
    Elizabeth Olsen
    Elizabeth Olsen
    • Edie Parker
    John Cullum
    John Cullum
    • Professor Steeves
    Brenda Wehle
    Brenda Wehle
    • Permissions Librarian
    Erin Darke
    Erin Darke
    • Gwendolyn
    Craig Chester
    Craig Chester
    • Businessman
    Lenore Harris
    • DA Secretary
    Mark Ethan
    Mark Ethan
    • Campus Guard
    Zach Appelman
    Zach Appelman
    • Luke Detweiler
    David Rasche
    David Rasche
    • Dean
    Quinlan Corbett
    Quinlan Corbett
    • Billeting Officer
    Dawn Newman
    • Jazz Singer
      • John Krokidas
      • Austin Bunn(screenplay) (story)
      • John Krokidas(screenplay)
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    • 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
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      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

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    not the best but....
    maybe it is not the best. but it is touching, nuanced and realistic. and confirms the talent of few actors, discover new possibilities for the other. a film about few young men in search of deep sense of life. a friendship story and a literature history fragment. an interesting performance , at different level, by each actor. and the feeling to discover a sketch who gives to you possibility to imagine its versions. a biographic subject who escapes by status of a case. because it reflects a common emotions experience. and reminds the heart of things.a useful film against the possibility of disappointment. because it presents a piece of world who is present in each of us. not the best. but, surely, useful.
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    • Vincentiu
    • Mar 12, 2014

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      • September 19, 2013 (Croatia)
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      • Columbia University, New York City, New York, USA
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      • Killer Films
      • Benaroya Pictures
      • Outpost Studios
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    • 1 hour 44 minutes
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