Taking Woodstock (2009)

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7.1	IMDB rating

Concert (2), 1969 (2), Woodstock (2), Place Name In Title (1), Drugs (1), (1), Music (1), Town Name In Title (1), Jewish Mother (1), 1960s (1), Based On Memoir (1), Small Town (1), Hippie Culture (1), Jewish (1), Summer Of Love (1), Closeted Homosexual (1), Motel (1), Traffic Jam (1), Hippies (1), Hippie (1)

Description

Taking Woodstock is the new film from Academy Award-winning director Ang Lee - and it’s a trip! Based on the memoirs of Elliot Tiber, the comedy stars Demetri Martin as Elliot, who inadvertently played a role in making 1969’s 'Woodstock Music and Arts Festival' into the famed happening it was. Featuring a standout ensemble cast, Taking Woodstock is the new film from Academy Award-winning director Ang Lee - and it’s a trip! Based on the memoirs of Elliot Tiber, the comedy stars Demetri Martin as Elliot, who inadvertently played a role in making 1969’s 'Woodstock Music and Arts Festival' into the famed happening it was.

Featuring a standout ensemble cast, and songs from a score of ’60s musical icons including The Grateful Dead, The Doors, Jefferson Airplane, and Country Joe and the Fish - plus a new recording of "Freedom" from Richie Havens - 'Taking Woodstock' is a joyous voyage to a moment in time when everything seemed possible.

Working as an interior designer in Greenwich Village, Elliot feels empowered by the gay rights movement. But he is also still staked to the family business - a dumpy Catskills motel called the El Monaco that is being run into the ground by his overbearing parents, Jake and Sonia Teichberg (Henry Goodman and Imelda Staunton).

In the summer of 1969, Elliot has to move back upstate to the El Monaco in order to help save the motel from being taken over by the bank. Upon hearing that a planned music and arts festival has lost its permit from the neighboring town of Wallkill, NY, Elliot calls producer Michael Lang (Jonathan Groff) at 'Woodstock Ventures' to offer his family’s motel to the promoters and generate some much-needed business. Elliot also introduces Lang to his neighbor Max Yasgur (Eugene Levy), who operates a 600-acre dairy farm down the road.

Soon the 'Woodstock' staff is moving into the El Monaco - and half a million people are on their way to Yasgur’s farm for "3 days of Peace & Music in White".

With a little help from his friends, including theater troupe leader Devon (Dan Fogler), recently returned Vietnam veteran Billy (Emile Hirsch), and cross-dressing ex-Marine Vilma (Liev Schreiber) - and with a little opposition from townspeople, including Billy’s brother Dan (Jeffrey Dean Morgan) - Elliot finds himself swept up in a generation-defining experience that would change his life - and popular culture - forever. ... (more)

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Directed by

Ang Lee

Starring (View all) :

Jake Teichberg

British Gentleman

Sonia Teichberg

Elliot Tiber

Billy

VW Guy

VW Girl

Frank

Annie

Margaret

Written by (View all) :

James Schamus

(screenplay)

Elliot Tiber

(book) and

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