KILL YOUR DARLINGS (2013)

The true story of a murder involving (to one degree or another) THE iconic poets of the Beat Generation - Allen Ginsberg (Daniel Radcliffe), Jack Kerouac (Jack Huston) and William Burroughs (Ben Foster) - begins in 1943, when shy Paterson, New Jersey "good boy" Ginsberg is accepted to Columbia University in New York. It's there he meets the charismatic Lucien Carr (Dane DeHaan), who introduces Allen to liquor, drugs, the party lifestyle .. and the expansion of his mind and life, as a writer, that becomes Ginsberg's addiction.  As the four pals begin to redefine how people think, feel and live through their controversial new literary movement, their own genius, wild lifestyle and bold choices grow more daring, dangerous - and deadly.  The four leads (Radcliffe, a genuine talent, breaking further away from Harry Potter than ever) bring the script to dramatic life on-screen ... the film also firmly securing another notch in the belt of Dane DeHaan as this generation's Leonardo DiCaprio. (rated R)  ****1/2

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