Taking Woodstock
USA
comedy

Runtime: 110 minutes
Production Year: 2009

Director: Ang Lee

Starring:

Henry Goodman (Jake Teichberg)
Emile Hirsch (Billy)

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.

Cast: Imelda Staunton (Sonia Teichberg), Paul Dano (VW Guy), Demetri Martin (Elliot Tiber), Kelli Garner (VW Girl), Jeffrey Dean Morgan (Dan), Christina Kirk (Carol), Edward Hibbert (British Gentleman), Clark Middleton (Frank), Eugene Levy (Max Yasgur), Liev Schreiber (Vilma), more...

Crew: Screenplay: James Schamus, Writer: Elliot Tiber, Writer: Tom Monte, Producer: Ang Lee, Producer: James Schamus, Music: Danny Elfman, Director of photography: Eric Gautier, Editor: Tim Squyres, Production designer: David Gropman, Costume designer: Joseph G. Aulisi, more...

Release Date: August 26, 2009  (USA)