Kill Your Darlings

1944 New York City winter streets empty except for a typewriter clacking. A murder unites three young writers: Allen Ginsberg, Jack Kerouac, and William Burroughs, their lives entwined in chaos. Krokidas frames the Beat Generation's origins with subtle intensity.

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John Krokidas directed Kill Your Darlings in 2013. See John Krokidas's full filmography, where to start with John Krokidas, or where to go after you've seen everything by John Krokidas.

Kill Your Darlings was released in 2013 (EN original-language production), with a runtime of 103 minutes.