KILL YOUR DARLINGS

By John KROKIDAS

UNITED TALENT AGENCY (UTA) - as SALES

Drama - Completed 2012


Festivals
& Awards

Toronto - TIFF 2013
Gala Presentations
    • Year of production
    • 2012
    • Genres
    • Drama
    • Countries
    • USA
    • Languages
    • ENGLISH
    • Duration
    • 95 mn
    • Director(s)
    • John KROKIDAS
    • Writer(s)
    • Austin BUNN, John KROKIDAS
    • EIDR
    • 10.5240/A693-7431-491C-E08C-5226-Q
    • Producer(s)
    • Christine VACHON, Michael BENAROYA, Rose GANGUZZA, John KROKIDAS
    • Synopsis
    • 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. Repelled by rules and conformity in both life and literature, the four agree to tear down tradition and make something new, ultimately formulating the tenets of and giving birth to what became the Beat movement. On the outside, looking in, is David Kammerer, a man in his thirties desperately in love with Carr. When Kammerer is found dead, and Kerouac, Burroughs, and Carr are arrested in conjunction with the murder, the nascent artists’ lives change forever.