Kill Your Darlings (2013) (original) (raw)

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. (less)

Director: John Krokidas
Starring: Michael C. Hall, Daniel Radcliffe, Elizabeth Olsen, Dane DeHaan, Jack Huston, Ben Foster

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Review by Brian Orndorf, November 13, 2013

7 / 10

There have been a films made about the Beat Generation, but few have been so obviously targeted to entice a young generation of moviegoers. As common in today�s superhero-shellacked marketplace, �Kill Your Darlings� is an origin story of sorts, heading back into the thick of WWII, where the world received its first lungful of creativity from the likes of Allen Ginsberg, William S. Burroughs, and Jack Kerouac -- a trio of writers who would go on to challenge literary and cultural stagnancy with their liquid minds. �Kill Your Darlings� dramatizes the development of this artistic liberation, usin ...read more...

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