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Kill Your Darlings

Kill Your Darlings

Drama · Romance · Thriller · 2013

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

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Kill Your Darlings

“A true story of obsession and murder.”

2013 Drama · Romance · Thriller 1h 43m

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7.0 / 10

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

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Names above the title

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Directed by

John Krokidas

Written by

John Krokidas · Austin Bunn

Daniel Radcliffe

Daniel Radcliffe

Allen Ginsberg

Dane DeHaan

Dane DeHaan

Lucien Carr

Michael C. Hall

Michael C. Hall

David Kammerer

Jack Huston

Jack Huston

Jack Kerouac

Ben Foster

Ben Foster

William Burroughs

David Cross

David Cross

Louis Ginsberg

Jennifer Jason Leigh

Jennifer Jason Leigh

Naomi Ginsberg

Court is in session

Put Kill Your Darlings on trial.

Two incompatible taste archetypes. One film. Read the arguments, then issue a completely binding cultural ruling.

The defence The Prestige Tourist

“Sincerity is not manipulation.”

The film risks embarrassment to make emotion communal, and that openness is harder than fashionable detachment.

The prosecution The Popcorn Loyalist

“The strings are showing.”

Every cue tells you exactly what to feel and when, leaving sentiment to do the work character should have done.