Taking Woodstock (2009)
MOVIE SUMMARY:
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 60's 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 Lake; 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. In another angle we can say, A man working at his parents' motel in the Catskills inadvertently sets in motion the generation-defining concert in the summer of 1969.
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| Taking Woodstock (2009) |
Movie Title: Taking Woodstock (2009)
Also Known As: Özgür Woodstock
In Theaters: August 28th, 2009
MPAA Rating: Rated R for graphic nudity, some sexual content, drug use and language
Genres: Comedy, Drama, Music
Distributors: Focus Features
Run Time: 2 Hr. 0 Min.
Budget: $30,000,000
Box Office: $7,443,007 (USA)
Director: Ang Lee
Writers: James Schamus (screenplay), Elliot Tiber (book), Tom Monte (book)
Stars: Demetri Martin, Henry Goodman and Edward Hibbert
Original Music: Danny Elfman
Cinematography: Eric Gautier (director of photography)
Film Editing: Tim Squyres
Studio: Focus Features
Country: USA
Language: English
Filming Locations: Cherry Plain State Park, New York, USA
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Produced by
Celia D. Costas ---- executive producer (as Celia Costas)
Patrick Cupo ---- associate producer
Michael Hausman ---- executive producer
Ang Lee ---- producer
David Lee ---- associate producer
David Sauers ---- associate producer
James Schamus ---- producer
FULL CAST
Henry Goodman ---- Jake Teichberg
Edward Hibbert ---- British Gentleman
Imelda Staunton ---- Sonia Teichberg
Demetri Martin ---- Elliot Teichberg
Kevin Chamberlin ---- Jackson Spiers
Lee Wong ---- George the Doorman (as Takeo Lee Wong)
Anthoula Katsimatides ---- Esther
Clark Middleton ---- Frank
Bette Henritze ---- Annie
Sondra James ---- Margaret
Jeffrey Dean Morgan ---- Dan
Christina Kirk ---- Carol
Gail Martino ---- Town Clerk
Emile Hirsch ---- Billy
Adam LeFevre ---- Dave
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