Loading ...Director: Ang Lee Writers (WGA): James Schamus (screenplay) Elliot Tiber (book) … more Contact: View company contact information for Taking Woodstock on IMDbPro. Release Date: 28 August 2009 (USA) more Genre: Comedy | Music more Tagline: “A Generation Began In His Backyard.” Plot: A generation began in his backyard. From Academy Award-winning director Ang Lee [...]
Director:
Ang Lee
Writers (WGA):
James Schamus (screenplay)
Elliot Tiber (book) …
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Contact:
View company contact information for Taking Woodstock on IMDbPro.
Release Date:
28 August 2009 (USA) more
Genre:
Comedy | Music more
Tagline:
“A Generation Began In His Backyard.”
Plot:
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.
Its 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 banks about to foreclose; his father wants to burn the place down, but hasnt 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 neighbors 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.