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Taking Woodstock (Limited Release)

Taking Woodstock (Limited Release)
Release: August 28, 2009
Genre: Comedy
Running Time: 110 Minutes
Director: Ang Lee
Studio: Alliance
Screenplay: Elliot Tiber, Tom Monte
Official Site: http://www.takingwoodstockthemovie.com/

Synopsis

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, N.Y., and Elliot finds himself swept up in a generation-defining experience that would change his life, and American culture, forever. The film features 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.

Cast

Demetri Martin, Emile Hirsch, Eugene Levy, Jeffrey Dean Morgan, Liev Schreiber, Paul Dano, Kelli Garner, Dan Fogler, Imelda Staunton, Kevin Sussman

Producers

Ang Lee
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