Taking Woodstock
- Release Date
- August 26, 2009
- Director
- Ang Lee
- Cast
- Henry Goodman , Edward Hibbert , Imelda Staunton , Demetri Martin , Emile Hirsch , Paul Dano
- Runtime
- 120
- Main Genre
- Comedy
- Writers
- James Schamus , Elliot Tiber , Tom Monte
- Tagline
- Take the trip this summer.
- Website
- http://twitter.com/focusmovies
Summary
A generation began in his backyard…. From Academy Award-winning director Ang Lee (Brokeback Mountain, Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon), comes Taking Woodstock, a new comedy inspired by the true story of Elliot Tiber (Demetri Martin) and his family, who inadvertently played a pivotal role in making the famed Woodstock Music and Arts Festival into the happening that it was. It’s 1969, and Elliot Tiber, a down-on-his-luck interior designer in Greenwich Village, New York, has to move back upstate to help his parents run their dilapidated Catskills motel, The El Monaco. The bank’s about to foreclose; his father wants to burn the place down, but hasn’t paid the insurance; and Elliot is still figuring how to come out to his parents. When Elliot hears that a neighboring town has pulled the permit on a hippie music festival, he calls the producers, thinking he could drum up some much-needed business for the motel. Three weeks later, half a million people are on their way to his neighbor’s farm in White Lake, NY, and Elliot finds himself swept up in a generation-defining experience that would change his life, and American culture, forever.
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