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Kill Your Darlings

Summary: A murder in 1944 draws together the great poets of the beat generation: Allen Ginsberg, Jack Kerouac, and William Burroughs.
Runtime: 1 h 44 min
MPAA: R

Country: United States
Language: English
Domestic: $ 1,030,064
International: $ 847,860
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