
Release Date:
August 26, 2009 (NY, LA; wide release: August 28)
Studio:
Focus Features
Director:
Ang Lee
Screenwriter:
James Schamus
Starring:
Demetri Martin, Emile Hirsch, Imelda Staunton, Henry Goodman, Jonathan Groff, Mamie Gummer, Eugene Levy, Jeffrey Dean Morgan, Liev Schreiber
Genre:
Comedy, Drama
MPAA Rating:
R (for graphic nudity, some sexual content, drug use and language)
Official Website:
TakingWoodstockthemovie.com
Review:
7/10 rating
DVD Review:
Not Available
DVD:
DVD | Blu-ray Disc
Movie Poster:
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Production Stills:
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Plot 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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