Taking Woodstock (2009)

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 is 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 neighbouring 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 neighbour’s farm in White Lake, NY, and Elliot finds himself swept up in a generation-defining experience that would change his life, and popular culture, forever. —Cannes Film Festival

Cast: Demetri Martin, Dan Fogler, Henry Goodman, Jonathan Groff, Eugene Levy, Jeffrey Dean Morgan, Imelda Staunton, Emile Hirsch, Liev Schreiber, Skylar Astin, Kevin Chamberlin, Paul Dano, Kelli Garner, Richard Thomas, Darren Pettie, Zachary Booth, Adam LeFevre, Ivan Sandomire, Mamie Gummer, Kevin Sussman, Daniel Eric Gold

Cannes (In Competition), London (Film on the Square), São Paulo

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Country: United States
Language: English
Color: Color
Runtime: 120 min.