Kill Your Darlings

{{Infobox film | name = Kill Your Darlings | image = Kill Your Darlings poster.jpg | alt = | caption = Theatrical release poster | director = John Krokidas | producer = | screenplay = John KrokidasAustin Bunn | story = Austin Bunn | starring = | music = Nico Muhly | cinematography = Reed Morano | editing = Brian A. Kates | studio = Killer FilmsBenaroya PicturesFuture Film | distributor = Sony Pictures Classics | released = | runtime = 104 minutes<ref>{{cite web|title='KILL YOUR DARLINGS (15)|url=https://www.bbfc.co.uk/releases/kill-your-darlings-film|work=The Works|publisher=British Board of Film Classification|date=October 21, 2013|access-date=May 14, 2014}}</ref> | country = United States | language = English | budget = $5.6 million | gross = $1.6 million | border = yes }}Kill Your Darlings is a 2013 American biographical drama film written by Austin Bunn and directed by John Krokidas in his feature film directorial debut. The film had its world premiere at the 2013 Sundance Film Festival, garnering positive first reactions. It was shown at the 2013 Toronto International Film Festival, and it had a limited theatrical North American release from October 16, 2013. Kill Your Darlings became available on Blu-ray and DVD, March 18, 2014 in the US, followed by its UK release on April 21, 2014. The story is about the college days of some of the earliest members of the Beat Generation (Lucien Carr, Allen Ginsberg, William S. Burroughs, and Jack Kerouac), their interactions, and Carr's killing of his long-time friend David Kammerer in Riverside Park in Manhattan, New York City. Plot In 1944, poet Allen Ginsberg (Daniel Radcliffe) wins a place at Columbia University in New York City. He arrives as a very inexperienced freshman, but soon runs into Lucien Carr (Dane DeHaan), an unruly character who holds strong anti-establishment beliefs. Ginsberg discovers that Carr only manages to stay at Columbia thanks to a professor working as a janitor, David Kammerer (Michael C. Hall), who writes all of Carr's term papers for him. Kammerer has a predatory relationship with Carr and is in love with him, pressuring Carr for sexual favors in exchange for assuring that he cannot be expelled.